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11Give{H8798)} us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
A Song of degrees of David. If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say; …
And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
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. 6-12)David is here rejoicing in hope and praying in hope; such are the triumphs of the saints, not so much upon the account of what they have in possession as of what they have in prospect (Ps. 60:6): “ God has spoken in his holiness (that is, he has given me his word of promise, has sworn by his holiness, and he will not lie unto David , Ps. 89:35), therefore I will rejoice , and please myself with th…
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