He said, “If the Lord does not help you, where would my help come from? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?”
Psalm 146:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Do not put your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no help. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, In whom there is no help. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no help. American Standard Version (1901) Put not your trust in princes, Nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. Common English Bible Don’t trust leaders; don’t trust any human beings— there’s no saving help with them! Catholic Public Domain Version He heals the contrite of heart, and he binds up their sorrows. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Who healeth the broken of heart, and bindeth up their bruises. |
He said, “If the Lord does not help you, where would my help come from? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?”
At that time the seer Hanani came to King Asa of Judah and said to him, “Because you relied on the king of Aram and did not rely on the Lord your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped you.
Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.
[[Turn away from mortals, who have only breath in their nostrils, for of what account are they?]]
On that day, says the Lord of hosts, the peg that was fastened in a secure place will give way; it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on it will perish, for the Lord has spoken.”
The Egyptians are human and not God; their horses are flesh and not spirit. When the Lord stretches out his hand, the helper will stumble, and the one helped will fall, and they will all perish together.
Isaiah said to them, “Say to your master: Thus says the Lord: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me.