¹² Give us help in our trouble; for there is no help in man.

¹ <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> May the Lord give ear to you in the day of trouble; may you be placed on high by the name of the God of Jacob;

² May he send you help from the holy place, and give you strength from Zion;

³ May he keep all your offerings in mind, and be pleased with the fat of your burned offerings; (Selah.)

⁴ May he give you your heart's desire, and put all your purposes into effect.

⁵ We will be glad in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will put up our flags: may the Lord give you all your requests.

⁶ Now am I certain that the Lord gives salvation to his king; he will give him an answer from his holy heaven with the strength of salvation in his right hand.

⁷ Some put their faith in carriages and some in horses; but we will be strong in the name of the Lord our God.

⁸ They are bent down and made low; but we have been lifted up.

⁹ Come to our help, Lord: let the king give ear to our cry.

²² Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.

³ And the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and your hope in the shade of Egypt will come to nothing.

⁴ For his chiefs are at Zoan, and his representatives have come to Hanes.

⁵ For they have all come with offerings to a people of no use to them, in whom is no help or profit, but only shame and a bad name.

³ For the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit: and when the Lord's hand is stretched out, the helper and he who is helped will come down together.

⁵ This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.

⁶ For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

⁷ A blessing is on the man who puts his faith in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.

⁸ For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.

¹⁷ Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.

¹³ God's wrath may not be turned back; the helpers of Rahab were bent down under him.

² Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.

³ Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

⁴ Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.

⁵ Happy is the man who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God: