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Psalm 108

Psa. 108:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Give
yahab (Hebrew #3051)
to give (whether literal or figurative); generally, to put; imperatively (reflexive) come
KJV usage: ascribe, bring, come on, give, go, set, take.
Pronounce: yaw-hab'
Origin: a primitive root
us help
`ezrah (Hebrew #5833)
108:12 (13) {ez-rawth'}; feminine of 5828; aid
KJV usage: help(-ed, -er).
Pronounce: ez-raw'
Origin: or mezrath (Psa. 60:11 (13)
from trouble
tsar (Hebrew #6862)
from 6887; narrow; (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble); also a pebble (as in 6864); (transitive) an opponent (as crowding)
KJV usage: adversary, afflicted(-tion), anguish, close, distress, enemy, flint, foe, narrow, small, sorrow, strait, tribulation, trouble.
Pronounce: tsar
Origin: or tsar {tsawr}
: fori vain
shav' (Hebrew #7723)
from the same as 7722 in the sense of desolating; evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective; also adverbially, in vain)
KJV usage: false(-ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity.
Pronounce: shawv
Origin: or shav {shav}
is the help
tshuw`ah (Hebrew #8668)
from 7768 in the sense of 3467; rescue (literal or figurative, pers., national or spir.)
KJV usage: deliverance, help, safety, salvation, victory.
Pronounce: tesh-oo-aw'
Origin: or tshuah {tesh-oo-aw'}
of man
'adam (Hebrew #120)
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
KJV usage: X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
Pronounce: aw-dawm'
Origin: from 119
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Job 16:2• 2I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all. (Job 16:2)
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Isa. 2:22• 22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for what account is to be made of him? (Isa. 2:22)

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Give.
Psa. 20:1‑9• 1To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Jehovah answer thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob protect thee;
 2May he send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;
 3Remember all thine oblations, and accept thy burnt-offering; Selah.
 4Grant thee according to thy heart, and fulfil all thy counsels.
 5We will triumph in thy salvation, and in the name of our God will we set up our banners. Jehovah fulfil all thy petitions!
 6Now know I that Jehovah saveth his anointed; he answereth him from the heavens of his holiness, with the saving strength of his right hand.
 7Some make mention of chariots, and some of horses, but we of the name of Jehovah our God.
 8They are bowed down and fallen; but we are risen and stand upright.
 9Save, Jehovah! Let the king answer us in the day we call. (Psa. 20:1‑9)
for vain.
Psa. 146:3‑5• 3Put not confidence in nobles, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
 4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his purposes perish.
 5Blessed is he who hath the *God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Jehovah his God, (Psa. 146:3‑5)
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Job 9:13• 13+God withdraweth not his anger; the proud helpers stoop under him: (Job 9:13)
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Job 16:2• 2I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all. (Job 16:2)
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Isa. 2:22• 22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for what account is to be made of him? (Isa. 2:22)
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Isa. 30:3‑5• 3For to you the protection of Pharaoh shall be a shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt a confusion.
 4For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
 5They were all ashamed of a people that did not profit them, nor were a help or profit, but a shame, and also a reproach. (Isa. 30:3‑5)
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Isa. 31:3• 3And the Egyptians are men, and not *God, and their horses flesh, and not spirit; and Jehovah shall stretch forth his hand, and he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shall fall, and they all shall perish together. (Isa. 31:3)
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Jer. 17:5‑8• 5Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that confideth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.
 6And he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but he shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
 7Blessed is the man that confideth in Jehovah, and whose confidence Jehovah is.
 8For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out its roots by the stream, and he shall not see when heat cometh, but his leaf shall be green; and in the year of drought he shall not be careful, neither shall he cease to yield fruit. (Jer. 17:5‑8)
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Lam. 4:17• 17Our eyes still failed for our vain help; in our watching, we have watched for a nation that did not save. (Lam. 4:17)
• {v.12-13} He will put forth the needed strength that all may be fulfilled. He gives strength to His people, His own power delivers them. They have learned that His only is of any worth or avail. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 107-113” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Give us help from trouble; for vain is man’s deliverance.