Psalms 108:12

Contemporary English Version

Help us defeat our enemies! No one else can rescue us.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Give us aid against the foe,for human help is worthless.

Hebrew Names Version
Give us help against the enemy, For the help of man is vain.

King James Version
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

English Standard Version
Oh grant us help against the foe, for vain is the salvation of man!

New Century Version
Help us fight the enemy. Human help is useless,

New English Translation
Give us help against the enemy, for any help men might offer is futile.

Amplified Bible
Give us help against the adversary, For deliverance by man is in vain [a worthless hope].

New American Standard Bible
Give us help against the enemy, For deliverance by man is worthless.

World English Bible
Give us help against the enemy, For the help of man is vain.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Giue vs helpe against trouble: for vaine is the helpe of man.

Legacy Standard Bible
Oh give us help against the adversary,For salvation by man is worthless.

Berean Standard Bible
Give us aid against the foe, for the help of man is worthless.

Complete Jewish Bible
God, have you rejected us? You don't go out with our armies, God.

Darby Translation
Give us help from trouble; for vain is man's deliverance.

Easy-to-Read Version
Help us defeat the enemy! No one on earth can rescue us.

George Lamsa Translation
Give us strength against our enemies; for vain is the help of man.

Good News Translation
Help us against the enemy; human help is worthless.

Lexham English Bible
Give us help against the enemy, for the help of humankind is futile.

Literal Translation
Give help to us from distress; for the deliverance of man is vain.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O be thou or helpe in trouble, for vayne is the helpe of man.

American Standard Version
Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the help of man.

Bible in Basic English
Give us help in our trouble; for there is no help in man.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Hast not Thou cast us off, O God? and Thou goest not forth, O God, with our hosts?

King James Version (1611)
Giue vs helpe from trouble: for vaine is the helpe of man.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Geue vs ayde against trouble: for the sauing helpe of man is but vayne.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Give us help from tribulation: for vain is the help of man.

English Revised Version
Give us help against the adversary: for vain is the help of man.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Yyue thou help to vs of tribulacioun; for the heelthe of man is veyn.

Update Bible Version
Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the help of man.

Webster's Bible Translation
Give us help from trouble: for vain [is] the help of man.

New King James Version
Give us help from trouble, For the help of man is useless.

New Living Translation
Oh, please help us against our enemies, for all human help is useless.

New Life Bible
O give us help against those who hate us. For the help of man is worth nothing.

New Revised Standard
O grant us help against the foe, for human help is worthless.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Grant us help out of distress, for, vain, is the deliverance of man:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(107-13) O grant us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

Revised Standard Version
O grant us help against the foe, for vain is the help of man!

Young's Literal Translation
Give to us help from adversity, And vain is the salvation of man.

THE MESSAGE
Give us help for the hard task; human help is worthless. In God we'll do our very best; he'll flatten the opposition for good.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Oh give us help against the adversary, For deliverance by man is in vain.

Contextual Overview

⁶ Answer my prayers and use your powerful arm to give us victory. Then the people you love will be safe. ⁷ Our God, from your holy place you made this promise: "I will gladly divide up the city of Shechem and give away Succoth Valley piece by piece. ⁸ The lands of Gilead and Manasseh are mine. Ephraim is my war helmet, and Judah is my symbol of royal power. ⁹ Moab is merely my washbasin, and Edom belongs to me. I shout with victory over the Philistines." ¹⁰ Our God, who will bring me to the fortress or lead me to Edom? ¹¹ Have you rejected us? You don't lead our armies. ¹² Help us defeat our enemies! No one else can rescue us. ¹³ You are the one who gives us victory and crushes our enemies.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Give: Psalms 20:1-9

for vain: Psalms 146:3-5, Job 9:13, Job 16:2, Isaiah 2:22, Isaiah 30:3-5, Isaiah 31:3, Jeremiah 17:5-8, Lamentations 4:17

Reciprocal: Psalms 9:9 - in times Psalms 60:11 - vain Mark 5:26 - nothing Luke 8:43 - had

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Give us help from trouble ... - This is copied from Psalms 60:11.