Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Give us help from trouble; for vain is man's deliverance.
New American Standard Bible
For
King James Version
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Holman Bible
for human help is worthless.
International Standard Version
Give us help against the enemy, because human help is useless.
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 adversary,
For deliverance by man is in vain [a worthless hope].
Julia Smith Translation
Give to us help from straits: and 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] enemy, for the help of humankind [is] futile.
Modern King James verseion
Give us help from trouble; for vain is the deliverance 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 enemy, for the help of man is vain.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Give to us help from adversity, And vain is the salvation of man.
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Word Count of 18 Translations in Psalm 108:12
Prayers for Psalm 108:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Plea For Victory
11 Wilt not thou, O God, who didst cast us off? and didst not go forth, O God, with our armies? 12 Give us help from trouble; for vain is man's deliverance. 13 Through God we shall do valiantly; and he it is that will tread down our adversaries.
Cross References
Job 9:13
+God withdraweth not his anger; the proud helpers stoop under him:
Job 16:2
I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all.
Psalm 20:1-9
{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} Jehovah answer thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob protect thee;
Psalm 146:3-5
Put not confidence in nobles, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
Isaiah 2:22
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for what account is to be made of him?
Isaiah 30:3-5
For to you the protection of Pharaoh shall be a shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt a confusion.
Isaiah 31:3
And the Egyptians are men, and not God, and their horses flesh, and not spirit; and Jehovah shall stretch forth his hand, and he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shall fall, and they all shall perish together.
Jeremiah 17:5-8
Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that confideth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.
Lamentations 4:17
Our eyes still failed for our vain help; in our watching, we have watched for a nation that did not save.