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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,{HR}And comforters of distress [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• 1To the chief musician; a Psalm of David.{HR}Jehovah hear thee in the day of trouble:{HR}The name of the God of Jacob protect thee.
 2Send thee help from the sanctuary{HR}And sustain thee from Zion;
 3Remember all thine offerings{HR}And accept thy burnt sacrifices. Selah.
 4Give unto thee according,{HR}To thy heart and fulfil all thy counsels.
 5May we rejoice in thy salvation,{HR}And in the name of our God set up a banner:{HR}Jehovah fulfil all thy petitions.
 6Now I know that Jehovah saveth his anointed;{HR}He answereth him from the heavens of his holiness{HR}With the mighty deeds of salvation of his right hand.
 7These of chariots and these of horses,{HR}But we of the name of Jehovah our God make mention,
 8They have bent and have fallen;{HR}But we have risen and keep ourselves upright.
 9Save, O Jehovah may the king hear us in the day of our calling. (Psa. 20:1‑9)
for vain.
Psa. 146:3‑5• 3Confide not in nobles,{HR}In a son of man in whom is no salvation.
 4His spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his earth:{HR}In that very day his purposes perish.
 5Blessed he, whose help [is] Jacob's God ,{HR}Whose hope [is] in Jehovah his God, (Psa. 146:3‑5)
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Job 9:13• 13God turneth not from his wrath:{HR}The helpers of pride have stooped under him. (Job 9:13)
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Job 16:2• 2I have heard many such things,{HR}And comforters of distress [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 a shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt a confusion.
 4For his princes are at Zoan, and his ambassadors are come to Hanes.
 5They shall all be ashamed of a people [that] cannot profit them, that are not a 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: and Jehovah shall stretch out 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 be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.
 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 Jehovah, and whose hope Jehovah 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 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 yet for us, our eyes failed for our vain help;{HR}On our watchtowers we 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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Give us help from distress,{HR}For (and) vain [is] man’s salvation.