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Psalms 108:12

Psalms 108:12 is verse 12 of Psalms chapter 108, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.

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King James Version

Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

World English Bible

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

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Psalms 108:10–13 · Berean Standard Bible

10 Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?

11 Have You not rejected us, O God? Will You no longer march out, O God, with our armies?

12 Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.

13 With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 20:1

May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.

Psalms 20:2

May He send you help from the sanctuary and sustain you from Zion.

Psalms 20:3

May He remember all your gifts and look favorably on your burnt offerings. Selah

Psalms 20:4

May He give you the desires of your heart and make all your plans succeed.

Psalms 20:5

May we shout for joy at your victory and raise a banner in the name of our God. May the LORD grant all your petitions.

Psalms 20:6

Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He answers him from His holy heaven with the saving power of His right hand.

Psalms 20:7

Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

Psalms 20:8

They collapse and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.

Psalms 20:9

O LORD, save the king. Answer us on the day we call.

Psalms 146:3

Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.

Psalms 146:4

When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.

Psalms 146:5

Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,

Job 9:13

God does not restrain His anger; the helpers of Rahab cower beneath Him.

Job 16:2

“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.

Isaiah 2:22

Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

Isaiah 30:3

But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace.

Isaiah 30:4

For though their princes are at Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,

Isaiah 30:5

everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them. They cannot be of help; they are good for nothing but shame and reproach.”

Isaiah 31:3

But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.

Jeremiah 17:5

This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.

Jeremiah 17:6

He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

Jeremiah 17:7

But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.

Jeremiah 17:8

He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.

Lamentations 4:17

All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.

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