Psalm 146:3

Translations

Modern

Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.

Traditional

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

Literal

Do not put your trust in princes—in a son of man, for in him is no deliverance.

Latin

…in filiis hominum, in quibus non est salus.

Original

Hebrew

English

Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.

Notes

Psalms 146:1–10

The call to praise (Psalm 146:1–2) leads to a warning against foolishness and false confidence (146:3–4). The psalm ends with a blessing for everyone who places their hope in the Lord (Psalm 146:5–7).

Psalms 146:1–150:6

The Psalter ends with five hallelujah psalms, so named because each begins and ends with Praise the LORD! (Hebrew haleluyah).

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Related verses

Psalm 118:8–9
It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.
Jeremiah 17:5–6
This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
Isaiah 2:22
Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
Psalm 108:12
Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.
Isaiah 31:3
But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.
Psalm 62:9
Lowborn men are but a vapor; the exalted are but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
Psalm 60:11
Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.
Isaiah 37:6
…who replied, “Tell your master that this is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.

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