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Psalms 146:3 Bible in Basic English (BBE)

3 Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

Cross Reference

Psalms 118:8-9 BBE

It is better to have faith in the Lord than to put one's hope in man. It is better to have faith in the Lord than to put one's hope in rulers.

Jeremiah 17:5-6 BBE

This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord. For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

Commentary on Psalms 146 Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible


PSALM 146

Ps 146:1-10. An exhortation to praise God, who, by the gracious and faithful exercise of His power in goodness to the needy, is alone worthy of implicit trust.