The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 118:8

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man (comp. Psalms 62:8, Psalms 62:9). Israel, on its return from the Captivity, had begun by putting a good deal of trust in its human helpers, as Cyrus and the other friendly heathen mentioned in Ezra 1:4-6; Ezra 3:7.

But this help, after a little time, had failed them (Ezra 4:1-24), and they had found themselves in great difficulties.

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