Psalms 146:3
Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
In Context
2I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
4When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 16:7At that time Hanani the seer came to King Asa of Judah and told him, “Because you have relied on the king of Aram and not on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand.
Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor; the exalted are but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
Psalms 118:8It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.
Isaiah 2:22Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
Isaiah 31:3But 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.
Jeremiah 17:5This 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.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 146:2-5
The Divine Bounty. 1 Praise ye the Lord . Praise the Lord , O my soul. 2 While I live will I praise the Lord : I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. 3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. 4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. David is supposed to have penned this psalm; and he was himself a prince, a mighty prince; as such, it might be thought, 1. That he should be exempted from the service of praising… Read the whole commentary →