¹² Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the help of man.

¹ Jehovah answer thee in the day of trouble; The name of the God of Jacob set thee up on high;

² Send thee help from the sanctuary, And strengthen thee out of Zion;

³ Remember all thy offerings, And accept thy burnt-sacrifice; Selah

⁴ Grant thee thy heart's desire, And fulfil all thy counsel.

⁵ We will triumph in thy salvation, And in the name of our God we will set up our banners: Jehovah fulfil all thy petitions.

⁶ Now know I that Jehovah saveth his anointed; He will answer him from his holy heaven With the saving strength of his right hand.

⁷ Some `trust' in chariots, and some in horses; But we will make mention of the name of Jehovah our God.

⁸ They are bowed down and fallen; But we are risen, and stand upright.

⁹ Save, Jehovah: Let the King answer us when we call. Psalm 21 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

²² Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?

³ Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

⁴ For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors are come to Hanes.

⁵ They shall all be ashamed because of a people that cannot profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

³ Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit: and when Jehovah shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.

⁵ Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.

⁶ For 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, a salt land and not inhabited.

⁷ Blessed is the man that trusteth in Jehovah, and whose trust Jehovah is.

⁸ For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat cometh, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

¹⁷ Our eyes do yet fail `in looking' for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

¹³ God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab do stoop under him.

² I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all.

³ Put not your trust in princes, Nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

⁴ His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.

⁵ Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in Jehovah his God: