Bible Cross References
Give
Psalm 20:1-9
1
May the LORD answer you when you are in trouble! May the God of Jacob protect you!
2
May he send you help from his Temple and give you aid from Mount Zion.
3
May he accept all your offerings and be pleased with all your sacrifices.
4
May he give you what you desire and make all your plans succeed.
5
Then we will shout for joy over your victory and celebrate your triumph by praising our God. May the LORD answer all your requests.
6
Now I know that the LORD gives victory to his chosen king; he answers him from his holy heaven and by his power gives him great victories.
7
Some trust in their war chariots and others in their horses, but we trust in the power of the LORD our God.
8
Such people will stumble and fall, but we will rise and stand firm.
9
Give victory to the king, O LORD; answer us when we call.
for vain
Psalm 146:3-5
3
Don't put your trust in human leaders; no human being can save you.
4
When they die, they return to the dust; on that day all their plans come to an end.
5
Happy are those who have the God of Jacob to help them and who depend on the LORD their God,
Job 9:13
God's anger is constant. He crushed his enemies who helped Rahab, the sea monster, oppose him.
Job 16:2
(SEE 16:1)
Isaiah 2:22
Put no more confidence in mortals. What are they worth?
Isaiah 30:3-5
3
But the king will be powerless to help them, and Egypt's protection will end in disaster.
4
Although their ambassadors have already arrived at the Egyptian cities of Zoan and Hanes,
5
the people of Judah will regret that they ever trusted that unreliable nation, a nation that fails them when they expect help."
Isaiah 31:3
The Egyptians are not gods---they are only human. Their horses are not supernatural. When the LORD acts, the strong nation will crumble, and the weak nation it helped will fall. Both of them will be destroyed.
Jeremiah 17:5-8
5
The LORD says, "I will condemn those who turn away from me and put their trust in human beings, in the strength of mortals.
6
He is like a bush in the desert, which grows in the dry wasteland, on salty ground where nothing else grows. Nothing good ever happens to him.
7
"But I will bless the person who puts his trust in me.
8
He is like a tree growing near a stream and sending out roots to the water. It is not afraid when hot weather comes, because its leaves stay green; it has no worries when there is no rain; it keeps on bearing fruit.
Lamentations 4:17
For help that never came, we looked until we could look no longer. We kept waiting for help from a nation that had none to give.