Psalms 108:12

Easy-to-Read Version

Help us defeat the enemy! No one on earth can rescue us.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Give us aid against the foe,for human help is worthless.

Hebrew Names Version
Give us help against the enemy, For the help of man is vain.

King James Version
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

English Standard Version
Oh grant us help against the foe, for vain is the salvation of man!

New Century Version
Help us fight the enemy. Human help is useless,

New English Translation
Give us help against the enemy, for any help men might offer is futile.

Amplified Bible
Give us help against the adversary, For deliverance by man is in vain [a worthless hope].

New American Standard Bible
Give us help against the enemy, For deliverance by man is worthless.

World English Bible
Give us help against the enemy, For the help of man is vain.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Giue vs helpe against trouble: for vaine is the helpe of man.

Legacy Standard Bible
Oh give us help against the adversary,For salvation by man is worthless.

Berean Standard Bible
Give us aid against the foe, for the help of man is worthless.

Contemporary English Version
Help us defeat our enemies! No one else can rescue us.

Complete Jewish Bible
God, have you rejected us? You don't go out with our armies, God.

Darby Translation
Give us help from trouble; for vain is man's deliverance.

George Lamsa Translation
Give us strength against our enemies; for vain is the help of man.

Good News Translation
Help us against the enemy; human help is worthless.

Lexham English Bible
Give us help against the enemy, for the help of humankind is futile.

Literal Translation
Give help to us from distress; for the deliverance of man is vain.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O be thou or helpe in trouble, for vayne is the helpe of man.

American Standard Version
Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the help of man.

Bible in Basic English
Give us help in our trouble; for there is no help in man.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Hast not Thou cast us off, O God? and Thou goest not forth, O God, with our hosts?

King James Version (1611)
Giue vs helpe from trouble: for vaine is the helpe of man.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Geue vs ayde against trouble: for the sauing helpe of man is but vayne.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Give us help from tribulation: for vain is the help of man.

English Revised Version
Give us help against the adversary: for vain is the help of man.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Yyue thou help to vs of tribulacioun; for the heelthe of man is veyn.

Update Bible Version
Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the help of man.

Webster's Bible Translation
Give us help from trouble: for vain [is] the help of man.

New King James Version
Give us help from trouble, For the help of man is useless.

New Living Translation
Oh, please help us against our enemies, for all human help is useless.

New Life Bible
O give us help against those who hate us. For the help of man is worth nothing.

New Revised Standard
O grant us help against the foe, for human help is worthless.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Grant us help out of distress, for, vain, is the deliverance of man:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(107-13) O grant us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

Revised Standard Version
O grant us help against the foe, for vain is the help of man!

Young's Literal Translation
Give to us help from adversity, And vain is the salvation of man.

THE MESSAGE
Give us help for the hard task; human help is worthless. In God we'll do our very best; he'll flatten the opposition for good.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Oh give us help against the adversary, For deliverance by man is in vain.

Contextual Overview

⁶ Use your great power and help us! Answer my prayer and save the people you love. ⁷ God has made this promise in his Temple: "I will win the war and rejoice in victory! I will divide this land among my people. I will give them Shechem. I will give them Succoth Valley. ⁸ Gilead and Manasseh will be mine. Ephraim will be my helmet. Judah will be my royal scepter. ⁹ Moab will be the bowl for washing my feet. Edom will be the slave who carries my sandals. I will defeat the Philistines and shout in victory!" ¹⁰But, God, it seems that you have left us! You do not go out with our army. So who will lead me into the strong, protected city? Who will lead me into battle against Edom? < ¹² Help us defeat the enemy! No one on earth can rescue us. ¹³ Only God can make us strong. Only God can defeat our enemies!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Give: Psalms 20:1-9

for vain: Psalms 146:3-5, Job 9:13, Job 16:2, Isaiah 2:22, Isaiah 30:3-5, Isaiah 31:3, Jeremiah 17:5-8, Lamentations 4:17

Reciprocal: Psalms 9:9 - in times Psalms 60:11 - vain Mark 5:26 - nothing Luke 8:43 - had

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Give us help from trouble ... - This is copied from Psalms 60:11.