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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: miserable 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 wherein is he to be accounted of? (Isa. 2:22)

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Give.
Psa. 20:1‑9• 1<<To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.>> The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;
 2Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;
 3Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
 4Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.
 5We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the Lord fulfil all thy petitions.
 6Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
 7Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.
 8They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
 9Save, Lord: let the king hear us when we call. (Psa. 20:1‑9)
for vain.
Psa. 146:3‑5• 3Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
 4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
 5Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God: (Psa. 146:3‑5)
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Job 9:13• 13If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him. (Job 9:13)
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Job 16:2• 2I have heard many such things: miserable 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 wherein is he to be accounted of? (Isa. 2:22)
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Isa. 30:3‑5• 3Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
 4For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
 5They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach. (Isa. 30:3‑5)
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Isa. 31:3• 3Now 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. (Isa. 31:3)
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Jer. 17:5‑8• 5Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
 6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
 7Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
 8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. (Jer. 17:5‑8)
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Lam. 4:17• 17As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us. (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.