Psalms 108:12 Cross References - LEB

¹² Give us help against the enemy, for the help of humankind is futile.

¹³ God will not turn back his anger; beneath him the helpers of Rahab bow.

² "I have heard many things like these; all of you are _⌊miserable comforters_⌋.*

¹ For the music director. A psalm of David.*
May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of Jacob's God protect* you. ² May he send you help* from the sanctuary, and from Zion may he sustain you. ³ May he remember all your offerings, and your burnt offering may he _⌊regard favorably_⌋.* ⁴ May he give to you _⌊your heart's desire_⌋,* and your every plan may he fulfill. Selah ⁵ May we shout for joy over your victory, and in the name of our God may we set up banners. May Yahweh fulfill all your requests. ⁶ Now I know that Yahweh will help his anointed.* He will answer him from his holy heaven with the victorious power of his right hand. ⁷ _⌊Some boast in chariots and others in horses_⌋,* but we boast in the name of Yahweh, our God. ⁸ They will collapse and fall, and we will rise and stand firm. ⁹ Rescue,* O Yahweh. Let the king answer us when we call.

³ Do not place trust in princes, in a son of humankind with whom there is no deliverance. ⁴ His breath departs; he returns to his plot;* on that day his plans perish. ⁵ Blessed is the one whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is on Yahweh as his God,

²² Turn away from humanity, who has breath in its nostrils,* for by* what is it esteemed?

³ And the protection of Pharaoh shall be shame to you, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt, humiliation. ⁴ For his officials are at Zoan, and his envoys reach to Hanes. ⁵ Everyone will start to stink because of a people that cannot profit them,
not for help and not for profiting, but for shame and also for disgrace."

³ And the Egyptians are human and not God, and their horses are flesh and not spirit. And Yahweh stretches out his hand, and the helper will stumble, and the one being helped will fall, and together all of them will come to an end.*

⁵ Thus says Yahweh,
"Cursed is the person who trusts in humankind and makes flesh his _⌊strength_⌋,* and turns aside his heart from Yahweh. ⁶ And he will be like a juniper in the wilderness,* and he will not see when good comes, and he will dwell in the parched places in the desert,* in a land of salt flats,* where no one lives. ⁷ Blessed be the person who trusts in Yahweh, and Yahweh is his trust. ⁸ For he will be like a tree planted by water, and to the stream it sends its roots, and it will not fear when heat comes, and its leaves* will be luxuriant, and in the year of drought it will not be anxious, and it will not cease from the bearing of fruit.

¹⁷ Still our eyes failed, looking for our help in vain; in our watchtower, we kept watch for a nation that could not save.