Verse 12

Give us help against the enemy, For the help of man is vain.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 20:1-9 : 1 > May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high, 2 Send you help from the sanctuary, Grant you support from Zion, 3 Remember all your offerings, And accept your burnt sacrifice. Selah. 4 May He grant you your heart's desire, And fulfill all your counsel. 5 We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God we will set up our banners: May Yahweh grant all your requests. 6 Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, With the saving strength of his right hand. 7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, But we trust the name of Yahweh our God. 8 They are bowed down and fallen, But we rise up, and stand upright. 9 Save, Yahweh; Let the King answer us when we call!
  • Isa 2:22 : 22 Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; For of what account is he?
  • Isa 30:3-5 : 3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. 4 For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors are come to Hanes. 5 They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can't profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
  • Isa 31:3 : 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit: and when Yahweh shall stretch out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
  • Jer 17:5-8 : 5 Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh. 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited. 7 Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose trust Yahweh is. 8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
  • Lam 4:17 : 17 Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
  • Ps 146:3-5 : 3 Don't put your trust in princes, Each a son of man in whom there is no help. 4 His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish. 5 Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:
  • Job 9:13 : 13 "God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
  • Job 16:2 : 2 "I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are you all!