Psalm 146:3-5 Part 1 of 2

Don't put your confidence in powerful people;

    there is no help for you there.

When they breathe their last, they return to the earth,

    and all their plans die with them.

But joyful are those who have the God of Israel as their helper,

    whose hope is in the LORD their God. 

 

Don't put your confidence in powerful people; there is no help for you there.

Psalm 60:11

Oh, please help us against our enemies,

    for all human help is useless.  (see all Psalm 60)

Psalm 118:8-9  

It is better to take refuge in the LORD

    than to trust in people.

It is better to take refuge in the LORD

    than to trust in princes.  (see all Psalm 118)

Isaiah 2:22  

Don't put your trust in mere humans.

    They are as frail as breath.

    What good are they?  (see all Isaiah 2)

 

When they breathe their last, they return to the earth, and all their plans die with them.  

Genesis 2:7  

Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nostrils, and the man became a living person.  (see all Genesis 2)

Genesis 3:19  

    "By the sweat of your brow

        will you have food to eat

    until you return to the ground

        from which you were made.

    For you were made from dust,

        and to dust you will return."  (see all Genesis 3)

Job 7:21  

"Why not just forgive my sin

    and take away my guilt?

For soon I will lie down in the dust and die.

    When you look for me I will be gone."  (see all Job 7)

Psalm 33:10  

The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations

    and thwarts all their schemes.  (see all Psalm 33)

Psalm 90:3  

You turn people back to dust, saying,

    "Return to dust, you mortals!"  (see all Psalm 90) 

Psalm 103:14  

For he knows how weak we are;

    he remembers we are only dust.  (see all Psalm 103)

Psalm 104:29  

But if you turn away from them, they panic.

    When you take away their breath,

    they die and turn again to dust.  (see all Psalm 104)

Ecclesiastes 12:7  

For then the dust will return to the earth,

    and the spirit will return to God who gave it.  (see all Ecclesiastes 12)

 

(parentheses are mine)

 

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