Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Give to us help from adversity, And vain is the deliverance of man.

New American Standard Bible

O give us help against the adversary,
For deliverance by man is in vain.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Give us aid against the foe,
for human help is worthless.

International Standard Version

Help us in our distress, for human help is worthless.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the help of man.

Amplified


Give us help against the enemy,
For the help of man is worthless (ineffectual, without purpose).

Bible in Basic English

Through God we will do great things, for through him our haters will be crushed under our feet.

Darby Translation

Give us help from trouble; for vain is man's deliverance.

Julia Smith Translation

Give to us help from straits, for vain the salvation of man.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Give us help against [the] adversary, for the help of humankind [is] futile.

Modern King James verseion

Give us help against our foe; for vain is the help of man.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O be thou our help in trouble, for vain is the help of man.

NET Bible

Give us help against the enemy, for any help men might offer is futile.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Grant us help out of distress, For, vain, is the deliverance of man:

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

References

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

Prayer In Difficult Times

10 Is it not Thou, O God? hast Thou cast us off? And dost Thou not go forth, O God, with our hosts! 11 Give to us help from adversity, And vain is the deliverance of man. 12 In God we do mightily, And He treadeth down our adversaries!


Cross References

Psalm 146:3

Trust not in princes -- in a son of man, For he hath no deliverance.

Psalm 25:22

Redeem Israel, O God, from all his distresses!

Psalm 62:1

To the Overseer, for Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of David. Only -- toward God is my soul silent, From Him is my salvation.

Psalm 108:12

Give to us help from adversity, And vain is the salvation of man.

Psalm 124:1-3

A Song of the Ascents, by David. Save for Jehovah -- who hath been for us, (Pray, let Israel say),

Psalm 130:8

And He doth redeem Israel from all his iniquities!

Isaiah 30:7

Yea, Egyptians are vanity, and in vain do help, Therefore I have cried concerning this: 'Their strength is to sit still.'

Isaiah 31:3

And the Egyptians are men, and not God, And their horses are flesh, and not spirit, And Jehovah stretcheth out His hand, And stumbled hath the helper, And fallen hath the helped one, And together all of them are consumed.

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