Parallel Verses
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].
Darby Translation
Give us help from trouble; for vain is man's deliverance.
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
Have you not rejected us, O God? You do not go out, O God, with our armies.
12
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Cross References
Job 9:13
"God will not turn back his anger; beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.
Job 16:2
"I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
Psalm 20:1-9
May the LORDanswer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob protect you!
Psalm 146:3-5
Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
Isaiah 2:22
Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?
Isaiah 30:3-5
Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.
Isaiah 31:3
The Egyptians are man, and not God, and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out his hand, the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall, and they will all perish together.
Jeremiah 17:5-8
Thus says the LORD: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD.
Lamentations 4:17
Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.