2 Kings 6:27

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And he said, “If the Lord will not help you, whence shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”

Cross References

Genesis 50:10

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

2 Kings 6:26

Now as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”

2 Kings 6:28

And the king asked her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’

Psalm 127:1

Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

Psalm 146:3

Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no help.

Psalm 60:11

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

Psalm 62:8

Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. Selah

Isaiah 2:2

It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,

Jeremiah 17:5

Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, whose heart turns away from the Lord.