¹² Give us help against the enemy, For the help of man is vain.

¹ > May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,

² Send you help from the sanctuary, Grant you support from Zion,

³ Remember all your offerings, And accept your burnt sacrifice. Selah.

⁴ May He grant you your heart's desire, And fulfill all your counsel.

⁵ We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God we will set up our banners: May Yahweh grant all your requests.

⁶ Now I know that Yahweh saves 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 trust the name of Yahweh our God.

⁸ They are bowed down and fallen, But we rise up, and stand upright.

⁹ Save, Yahweh; Let the King answer us when we call!

²² Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; For of what account is he?

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 can't 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 Yahweh shall stretch out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.

⁵ Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

⁶ For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

⁷ Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose trust Yahweh is.

⁸ For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, 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 stoop under him.

² "I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are you all!

³ Don't put your trust in princes, Each a son of man in whom there is no help.

⁴ His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

⁵ Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in Yahweh, his God: