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Salmos 118:9
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Es mejor refugiarse en el Señor que confiar en príncipes.
Mejor es confiar en Jehov� que confiar en pr�ncipes.
Mejor es esperar en el SE�OR que esperar en pr�ncipes.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
than to put: Psalms 146:3-5, Isaiah 30:2, Isaiah 30:3, Isaiah 30:15-17, Isaiah 31:1, Isaiah 31:8, Isaiah 36:6, Isaiah 36:7, Ezekiel 29:7
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 16:21 - loved him 2 Kings 6:27 - whence Esther 6:3 - There is nothing Psalms 40:4 - Blessed Psalms 60:10 - Wilt Psalms 62:9 - of high Psalms 112:7 - trusting Psalms 125:1 - that trust Isaiah 30:7 - Their Jeremiah 17:5 - Cursed Daniel 6:9 - signed Daniel 6:16 - Thy God Daniel 6:23 - because Micah 1:14 - houses Micah 7:5 - ye not in 1 Timothy 6:17 - but
Gill's Notes on the Bible
[It is] better to trust in the Lord,.... The Targum is,
"in the Word of the Lord.''
This is repeated for the sake of what follows:
than to put confidence in princes; who have greater ability to help, and whose honour should engage them to keep their word; and yet it is better to trust in the Lord than in them; see Psalms 146:3. Two different words being used in this verse and Psalms 118:8; for trust and confidence, Jarchi has observed, that the one signifies a lesser, the other a stronger confidence; as if the sense was this, "It is better lightly to trust in the Lord than to put the strongest confidence in men and princes." But the observation is scarcely solid enough.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
It is better ... than to put confidence in princes - Even in the most mighty of the human race; in those who of all people may be supposed to have the most ability to aid us; in those whose favor is often sought more than the favor of God. Princes are only men; often as faithless and deceitful as other men; often less reliable in their character than those in more humble life. and in the great matters where we most need aid - in sickness, in danger, in death, in the eternal world - as absolutely powerless as men in the lowest condition of poverty, or in the most humble rank.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 118:9. In princes. — Men of high estate are generally proud, vain-glorious, self-confident, and rash: it is better to trust in God than in them. Often they cannot deliver, and often they will not when they can. However, in the concerns of our salvation, and in matters which belong to Providence, they can do nothing.
