60:11 Give us help against the enemy,
for any help men might offer is futile. 1
62:8 Trust in him at all times, you people!
Pour out your hearts before him! 2
God is our shelter! (Selah)
118:8 It is better to take shelter 3 in the Lord
than to trust in people.
118:9 It is better to take shelter in the Lord
than to trust in princes.
A song of ascents, 5 by David.
124:1 “If the Lord had not been on our side” –
let Israel say this! –
124:2 if the Lord had not been on our side,
when men attacked us, 6
124:3 they would have swallowed us alive,
when their anger raged against us.
A song of ascents, 8 by Solomon.
127:1 If the Lord does not build a house, 9
then those who build it work in vain.
If the Lord does not guard a city, 10
then the watchman stands guard in vain.
146:3 Do not trust in princes,
or in human beings, who cannot deliver! 11
2:2 In the future 12
the mountain of the Lord’s temple will endure 13
as the most important of mountains,
and will be the most prominent of hills. 14
All the nations will stream to it,
17:5 The Lord says,
“I will put a curse on people
who trust in mere human beings,
who depend on mere flesh and blood for their strength, 16
and whose hearts 17 have turned away from the Lord.