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3Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
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It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. …
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. …
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)David is supposed to have penned this psalm; and he was himself a prince, a mighty prince; as such, it might be thought, 1. That he should be exempted from the service of praising God, that it was enough for him to see that his priests and people did it, but that he needed not to do it himself in his own person. Michal thought it a disparagement to him to dance before the ark ; but he was so far f…
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