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New King James Version

Psalms 146:3

Do not put your trust in princes, Nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - False Confidence;   Praise;   Thompson Chain Reference - False;   Man;   Security-Insecurity;   Seven;   Trust in Man;   Trusts, False;   Uncertainties, Seven;   Uncertainties-Certainties;   The Topic Concordance - Help;   Trust;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Protection;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hope;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Son of Man;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Anthropology;   Hope;   Son of Man;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Haggai;   Hallel;   Hallelujah;   Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Haggai;   Hallelujah;   Prince;   Vulgate;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sonne of man, for there is none helpe in him.
Christian Standard Bible®
Do not trust in nobles,in a son of man, who cannot save.
Hebrew Names Version
Don't put your trust in princes, Each a son of man in whom there is no help.
Easy-to-Read Version
Don't depend on your leaders for help. Don't depend on people, because they cannot save you.
Amplified Bible
Do not trust in princes, In mortal man, in whom there is no salvation (help).
American Standard Version
Put not your trust in princes, Nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Contemporary English Version
You can't depend on anyone, not even a great leader.
Complete Jewish Bible
Don't put your trust in princes or in mortals, who cannot help.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
King James Version (1611)
Put not your trust in Princes: nor in the sonne of man, in whom there is no helpe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Trust not in princes, nor in the children of men, in whom there is no safety.
English Revised Version
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Berean Standard Bible
Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.
Lexham English Bible
Do not place trust in princes, in a son of humankind with whom there is no deliverance.
Literal Translation
Put not your trust in nobles, in a son of man, for there is no salvation in him.
New Century Version
Do not put your trust in princes or other people, who cannot save you.
New English Translation
Do not trust in princes, or in human beings, who cannot deliver!
New Living Translation
Don't put your confidence in powerful people; there is no help for you there.
New Life Bible
Do not put your trust in princes, in a son of a man, who cannot save us.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Do not ye trust in nobles, in a son of man who hath no deliverance:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(145-3) In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.
George Lamsa Translation
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Good News Translation
Don't put your trust in human leaders; no human being can save you.
New American Standard Bible
Do not trust in noblemen, In mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.
King James Version
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
His spirite shall depart out of hym, he shall turne agayne to his earth: at that day all his thoughtes shall perishe.
New Revised Standard
Do not put your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no help.
Darby Translation
Put not confidence in nobles, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
nether in the sones of men, in whiche is noon helthe.
Young's Literal Translation
Trust not in princes -- in a son of man, For he hath no deliverance.
World English Bible
Don't put your trust in princes, Each a son of man in whom there is no help.
Revised Standard Version
Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no help.
Update Bible Version
Don't put your trust in princes, Nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Webster's Bible Translation
Put not your trust in princes, [nor] in the son of man, in whom [there is] no help.
Bible in Basic English
Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For when ye breth of man goeth forth, he shal turne agayne to his earth, and so all his thoughtes perishe.
THE MESSAGE
Don't put your life in the hands of experts who know nothing of life, of salvation life. Mere humans don't have what it takes; when they die, their projects die with them. Instead, get help from the God of Jacob, put your hope in God and know real blessing! God made sky and soil, sea and all the fish in it. He always does what he says— he defends the wronged, he feeds the hungry. God frees prisoners— he gives sight to the blind, he lifts up the fallen. God loves good people, protects strangers, takes the side of orphans and widows, but makes short work of the wicked.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Do not trust in princes, In mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.
Legacy Standard Bible
Do not trust in nobles,In merely a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

Contextual Overview

1 Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul! 2 While I live I will praise the LORD; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. 3 Do not put your trust in princes, Nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help. 4 His spirit departs, he returns to his earth; In that very day his plans perish.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Put: Psalms 62:9, Psalms 118:8, Psalms 118:9, Isaiah 2:22, Isaiah 31:3, Isaiah 37:6, Jeremiah 17:5, Jeremiah 17:6

help: or, salvation

Reciprocal: Genesis 12:13 - and Genesis 48:21 - Behold Deuteronomy 31:3 - thy God 1 Samuel 16:21 - loved him 2 Kings 6:27 - whence 2 Kings 16:7 - and save 2 Chronicles 16:7 - Because Job 4:21 - excellency Job 12:10 - the breath Psalms 2:12 - Blessed Psalms 7:1 - in Psalms 8:4 - son Psalms 52:7 - made Psalms 60:11 - vain Psalms 108:12 - for vain Psalms 144:3 - or the son Proverbs 3:5 - Trust Ecclesiastes 9:6 - their love Isaiah 22:25 - the burden Isaiah 32:2 - a man Isaiah 39:2 - was glad Jeremiah 2:13 - broken cisterns Jeremiah 39:18 - because Ezekiel 29:7 - thou didst Daniel 6:9 - signed Daniel 6:23 - because Hosea 14:3 - Asshur Micah 1:14 - houses John 5:23 - all men 1 Corinthians 4:6 - that ye Ephesians 1:12 - who Hebrews 2:6 - the son Hebrews 13:6 - The Lord 1 Peter 1:21 - your

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Put not your trust in princes,.... Not in foreign princes, in alliances and confederacies with them; nor in any at home. David did not desire his people to put their trust in him, nor in his nobles and courtiers; but in the Lord Christ, who, as he is the object of praise, is also the proper object of trust. Princes, though ever so liberal and bountiful, as their name signifies, and therefore called benefactors,

Luke 22:25 or ever so mighty and powerful, wise and prudent, yet are not to be depended upon; they are changeable, fickle, and inconstant; and oftentimes not faithful to their word, but fallacious and deceitful; "men of high degree are a lie", Psalms 62:9; wherefore it is better to trust in the Lord Jehovah, in whom is everlasting strength; who gives all things richly to enjoy; who is unchangeable, and ever abides faithful; see Psalms 118:8;

[nor] in the son of man, in whom [there is] no help; or "salvation" m: not in any mere man born of a woman; not in Abraham, the father of the faithful, of whom the Jews boasted, as the Midrash; nor in Moses, as Arama; nor in Cyrus, as R. Obadiah; no, nor in David himself, nor in any of the princes; for how great soever they look, or in whatsoever honour and esteem they may be, they are but sons of men; are frail mortal men, and die like men, though they may be called gods, as they are by office: but no man or son of man, let him be what he will, is to be trusted in; there is a curse on him that does it, Jeremiah 17:5. There is indeed a Son of man that is to be trusted in, the Lord Jesus Christ; but then he is God as well as man, the true God, the great God, God over all, blessed for ever; were he not, he would not be the proper object of trust, for there is no "help" or "salvation" in a mere creature; even kings and princes cannot help and save themselves oftentimes, and much less their people; their salvation is of God, and not from themselves, or from their armies, Psalms 33:16. There is help in Christ, on whom it is laid, and where it is found; there is salvation in him, but in no other; he is the author and giver of it, and therefore he, and not another, is to be trusted in.

m תשועה "salus", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Put not your trust in princes - Rely on God rather than on man, however exalted he may be. There is a work of protection and salvation which no man, however exalted he may be, can perform for you; a work which God alone, who is the Maker of all things, and who never dies, can accomplish. See the notes at Psalms 118:8-9. Compare also the notes at Isaiah 2:22 : “Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for wherein is he to be accounted of?”

Nor in the son of man - Any son of man; any human being, no matter what his rank or power. The phrase is often used to denote man. See the notes at Psalms 8:4. The appellation “Son of man” was often applied by the Saviour to himself to express emphatically the idea that he was a man - that he had a human nature; that he was identified with the race; that he was a brother, a fellow-sufferer, a friend of man: that he was not a cold and abstract being so exalted that he could not feel or weep over the sins and woes of a fallen and suffering world. The language here, however, it is scarcely necessary to say, does not refer to him. It is right to put our trust in him; we have no other trust.

In whom there is no help - Margin, salvation. So the Hebrew. The idea is, that man cannot save us. He cannot save himself; he cannot save others.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 146:3. Put not your trust in princes — This may refer, as has been stated above, to Cyrus, who had revoked his edict for the rebuilding of Jerusalem. Perhaps they had begun to suppose that they were about to owe their deliverance to the Persian king. God permitted this change in the disposition of the king, to teach them the vanity of confidence in men, and the necessity of trusting in himself.


 
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