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12Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. …
As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. …
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-13)We may here learn how to pray as well as praise. 1. We must be public-spirited in prayer, and bear upon our hearts, at the throne of grace, the concerns of the church of God, Ps. 108:6. It is God’s beloved , and therefore must be ours; and therefore we must pray for its deliverance, and reckon that we are answered if God grant what we ask for his church, though he delay to give us what we ask for…
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