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Psalms 108:12 World English Bible (WEB)

12 Give us help against the enemy, For the help of man is vain.

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Psalms 20:1-9 WEB

> May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high, Send you help from the sanctuary, Grant you support from Zion, Remember all your offerings, And accept your burnt sacrifice. Selah. May He grant you your heart's desire, And fulfill all your counsel. We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God we will set up our banners: May Yahweh grant all your requests. Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, With the saving strength of his right hand. Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, But we trust the name of Yahweh our God. They are bowed down and fallen, But we rise up, and stand upright. Save, Yahweh; Let the King answer us when we call!

Isaiah 2:22 WEB

Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; For of what account is he?

Isaiah 30:3-5 WEB

Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors are come to Hanes. They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can't profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

Isaiah 31:3 WEB

Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit: and when Yahweh shall stretch out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.

Jeremiah 17:5-8 WEB

Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited. Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose trust Yahweh is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

Lamentations 4:17 WEB

Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

Job 9:13 WEB

"God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

Job 16:2 WEB

"I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are you all!

Psalms 146:3-5 WEB

Don't put your trust in princes, Each a son of man in whom there is no help. His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish. Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:

Commentary on Psalms 108 John Gill's Exposition of the Bible


Introduction

INTRODUCTION TO Psalm 108

A Song cf15I or Psalm of David. This psalm consists of several passages out of the fifty seventh and sixtieth psalms, with very little variation. Jarchi and Kimchi refer it to the times of the Messiah. The title in the Syriac version is,

"concerning the calling of the Gentiles,'

to which, no doubt, it has respect.


Verses 1-3

O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise,.... From hence to Psalm 108:6 the words are taken out of Psalm 57:7, which see.

Even with my glory; my tongue; in Psalm 57:8, it is read, "awake up my glory". See Gill on Psalm 57:7,


Verse 4-5

For thy mercy is great above the heavens,..... It is in Psalm 57:10, "thy mercy is great unto the heavens". See Gill on Psalm 57:10.


Verses 6-8

That thy beloved may be delivered,.... From hence to the end of the psalm the words are taken out of Psalm 60:5. See Gill on Psalm 60:5.


Verse 9-10

Over Philistia will I triumph,.... In Psalm 60:8, it is, "Philistia, triumph thou because of me"; See Gill on Psalm 60:8.


Verses 11-13

And wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?.... In Psalm 60:10, it is, "and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies". See Gill on Psalm 60:10.