And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him.

By the God of your father who will help you, And by the Almighty who will bless you With blessings of heaven above, Blessings of the deep that lies beneath, Blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

Then the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

and the name of the other was Eliezer (for he said, “The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”);

If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying under its burden, and you would refrain from helping it, you shall surely help him with it.

Lending to the Poor

‘If one of your brethren becomes poor, and falls into poverty among you, then you shall help him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you.

“You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fall down along the road, and hide yourself from them; you shall surely help him lift them up again.

Who ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise and help you, And be your refuge.

And this he said of Judah: “Hear, Lord, the voice of Judah, And bring him to his people; Let his hands be sufficient for him, And may You be a help against his enemies.”

“There is no one like the God of Jeshurun, Who rides the heavens to help you, And in His excellency on the clouds.

Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, The shield of your help And the sword of your majesty! Your enemies shall submit to you, And you shall tread down their high places.”

Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan. But you shall pass before your brethren armed, all your mighty men of valor, and help them,

“Come up to me and help me, that we may attack Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.”

And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, “Do not forsake your servants; come up to us quickly, save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the mountains have gathered together against us.”

Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he left him none remaining.

‘Curse Meroz,’ said the angel of the Lord, ‘Curse its inhabitants bitterly, Because they did not come to the help of the Lord, To the help of the Lord against the mighty.’

Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the Lord has helped us.”

And they said to the messengers who came, “Thus you shall say to the men of Jabesh Gilead: ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have help.’ ” Then the messengers came and reported it to the men of Jabesh, and they were glad.

When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David killed twenty-two thousand of the Syrians.

Then he said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the people of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.

And when all the kings who were servants to Hadadezer saw that they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and served them. So the Syrians were afraid to help the people of Ammon anymore.

And when the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground and prostrated herself, and said, “Help, O king!”

But the people answered, “You shall not go out! For if we flee away, they will not care about us; nor if half of us die, will they care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us now. For you are now more help to us in the city.”

Then he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, and they followed and helped Adonijah.

So they went out at noon. Meanwhile Ben-Hadad and the thirty-two kings helping him were getting drunk at the command post.

Then, as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”

And he said, “If the Lord does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?”

For the Lord saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter; and whether bond or free, there was no helper for Israel.

And they were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them, for they cried out to God in the battle. He heeded their prayer, because they put their trust in Him.

The Growth of David’s Army

Now these were the men who came to David at Ziklag while he was still a fugitive from Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men, helpers in the war,

And David went out to meet them, and answered and said to them, “If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if to betray me to my enemies, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers look and bring judgment.”

Then the Spirit came upon Amasai, chief of the captains, and he said: “We are yours, O David; We are on your side, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, And peace to your helpers! For your God helps you.” So David received them, and made them captains of the troop.

And some from Manasseh defected to David when he was going with the Philistines to battle against Saul; but they did not help them, for the lords of the Philistines sent him away by agreement, saying, “He may defect to his master Saul and endanger our heads.”

And they helped David against the bands of raiders, for they were all mighty men of valor, and they were captains in the army.

For at that time they came to David day by day to help him, until it was a great army, like the army of God.

And so it was, when God helped the Levites who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, that they offered seven bulls and seven rams.

When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David killed twenty-two thousand of the Syrians.

Then he said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the people of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will help you.

And when the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with David and became his servants. So the Syrians were not willing to help the people of Ammon anymore.

David also commanded all the leaders of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,

because their duty was to help the sons of Aaron in the service of the house of the Lord, in the courts and in the chambers, in the purifying of all holy things and the work of the service of the house of God,

And Asa cried out to the Lord his God, and said, “Lord, it is nothing for You to help, whether with many or with those who have no power; help us, O Lord our God, for we rest on You, and in Your name we go against this multitude. O Lord, You are our God; do not let man prevail against You!”

So it was, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, “It is the king of Israel!” Therefore they surrounded him to attack; but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the Lord helped him, and God diverted them from him.

And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Therefore the wrath of the Lord is upon you.

So Judah gathered together to ask help from the Lord; and from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord.

For the people of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. And when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.

But if you go, be gone! Be strong in battle! Even so, God shall make you fall before the enemy; for God has power to help and to overthrow.”

God helped him against the Philistines, against the Arabians who lived in Gur Baal, and against the Meunites.

And under their authority was an army of three hundred and seven thousand five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.

And he made devices in Jerusalem, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and the corners, to shoot arrows and large stones. So his fame spread far and wide, for he was marvelously helped till he became strong.

Assyria Refuses to Help Judah

At the same time King Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him.

For Ahaz took part of the treasures from the house of the Lord, from the house of the king, and from the leaders, and he gave it to the king of Assyria; but he did not help him.

For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him, saying, “Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel.

But the priests were too few, so that they could not skin all the burnt offerings; therefore their brethren the Levites helped them until the work was ended and until the other priests had sanctified themselves, for the Levites were more diligent in sanctifying themselves than the priests.

he consulted with his leaders and commanders to stop the water from the springs which were outside the city; and they helped him.

With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles.” And the people were strengthened by the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

And whoever is left in any place where he dwells, let the men of his place help him with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, besides the freewill offerings for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.

So Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak rose up and began to build the house of God which is in Jerusalem; and the prophets of God were with them, helping them.

For I was ashamed to request of the king an escort of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the road, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is upon all those for good who seek Him, but His power and His wrath are against all those who forsake Him.”

Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, helped the people to understand the Law; and the people stood in their place.

So they read distinctly from the book, in the Law of God; and they gave the sense, and helped them to understand the reading.

Esther Agrees to Help the Jews

When Mordecai learned all that had happened, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city. He cried out with a loud and bitter cry.

And all the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and all those doing the king’s work, helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them.

Is my help not within me? And is success driven from me?

“How have you helped him who is without power? How have you saved the arm that has no strength?

Because I delivered the poor who cried out, The fatherless and the one who had no helper.

They break up my path, They promote my calamity; They have no helper.

I go about mourning, but not in the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry out for help.

If I have raised my hand against the fatherless, When I saw I had help in the gate;

“Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry out for help because of the arm of the mighty.

“But the hypocrites in heart store up wrath; They do not cry for help when He binds them.

Because there is wrath, beware lest He take you away with one blow; For a large ransom would not help you avoid it.

The Lord Helps His Troubled People

A Psalm of David when he fled from Absalom his son.

Lord, how they have increased who trouble me! Many are they who rise up against me.

Many are they who say of me, “There is no help for him in God.” Selah

He sits in the lurking places of the villages; In the secret places he murders the innocent; His eyes are secretly fixed on the helpless.

So he crouches, he lies low, That the helpless may fall by his strength.

But You have seen, for You observe trouble and grief, To repay it by Your hand. The helpless commits himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

Man’s Treachery and God’s Constancy

To the Chief Musician. On an eight-stringed harp. A Psalm of David.

Help, Lord, for the godly man ceases! For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.

May He send you help from the sanctuary, And strengthen you out of Zion;

The Suffering, Praise, and Posterity of the Messiah

To the Chief Musician. Set to “The Deer of the Dawn.” A Psalm of David.

My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, And from the words of My groaning?

Be not far from Me, For trouble is near; For there is none to help.

But You, O Lord, do not be far from Me; O My Strength, hasten to help Me!

Do not hide Your face from me; Do not turn Your servant away in anger; You have been my help; Do not leave me nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.

The Lord is my strength and my shield; My heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart greatly rejoices, And with my song I will praise Him.

Hear, O Lord, and have mercy on me; Lord, be my helper!”

Our soul waits for the Lord; He is our help and our shield.

Take hold of shield and buckler, And stand up for my help.

And the Lord shall help them and deliver them; He shall deliver them from the wicked, And save them, Because they trust in Him.

Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!

Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, make haste to help me!

But I am poor and needy; Yet the Lord thinks upon me. You are my help and my deliverer; Do not delay, O my God.

Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him For the help of His countenance.

Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.

Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.

Arise for our help, And redeem us for Your mercies’ sake.

God the Refuge of His People and Conqueror of the Nations

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A Song for Alamoth.

God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.

God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved; God shall help her, just at the break of dawn.

Behold, God is my helper; The Lord is with those who uphold my life.

They run and prepare themselves through no fault of mine. Awake to help me, and behold!

Give us help from trouble, For the help of man is useless.

Because You have been my help, Therefore in the shadow of Your wings I will rejoice.

An Urgent Plea for Help in Trouble

To the Chief Musician. Set to “The Lilies.” A Psalm of David.

Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck.

Prayer for Relief from Adversaries

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. To bring to remembrance.

Make haste, O God, to deliver me! Make haste to help me, O Lord!

But I am poor and needy; Make haste to me, O God! You are my help and my deliverer; O Lord, do not delay.

O God, do not be far from me; O my God, make haste to help me!

For He will deliver the needy when he cries, The poor also, and him who has no helper.

Help us, O God of our salvation, For the glory of Your name; And deliver us, and provide atonement for our sins, For Your name’s sake!

Assyria also has joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot. Selah

Show me a sign for good, That those who hate me may see it and be ashamed, Because You, Lord, have helped me and comforted me.

A Prayer for Help in Despondency

A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. To the Chief Musician. Set to “Mahalath Leannoth.” A Contemplation of Heman the Ezrahite.

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have cried out day and night before You.

Then You spoke in a vision to Your holy one, And said: “I have given help to one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people.

Unless the Lord had been my help, My soul would soon have settled in silence.

Therefore He brought down their heart with labor; They fell down, and there was none to help.

Give us help from trouble, For the help of man is useless.

Help me, O Lord my God! Oh, save me according to Your mercy,

O Israel, trust in the Lord; He is their help and their shield.

O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord; He is their help and their shield.

You who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord; He is their help and their shield.

The Lord is for me among those who help me; Therefore I shall see my desire on those who hate me.

You pushed me violently, that I might fall, But the Lord helped me.

All Your commandments are faithful; They persecute me wrongfully; Help me!

I rise before the dawning of the morning, And cry for help; I hope in Your word.

Let Your hand become my help, For I have chosen Your precepts.

Let my soul live, and it shall praise You; And let Your judgments help me.

God the Help of Those Who Seek Him

A Song of Ascents.

I will lift up my eyes to the hills— From whence comes my help?

My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.

Our help is in the name of the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.

The Happiness of Those Whose Help Is the Lord

Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul!

Do not put your trust in princes, Nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help.

Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in the Lord his God,

A man burdened with bloodshed will flee into a pit; Let no one help him.

For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, For he has no one to help him up.

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah are His pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression; For righteousness, but behold, a cry for help.

What will you do in the day of punishment, And in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your glory?

And the inhabitant of this territory will say in that day, ‘Surely such is our expectation, wherever we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?’ ”

They were all ashamed of a people who could not benefit them, Or be help or benefit, But a shame and also a reproach.”

For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose. Therefore I have called her Rahab-Hem-Shebeth.

The Folly of Not Trusting God

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, And rely on horses, Who trust in chariots because they are many, And in horsemen because they are very strong, But who do not look to the Holy One of Israel, Nor seek the Lord!

Yet He also is wise and will bring disaster, And will not call back His words, But will arise against the house of evildoers, And against the help of those who work iniquity.

Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; And their horses are flesh, and not spirit. When the Lord stretches out His hand, Both he who helps will fall, And he who is helped will fall down; They all will perish together.

Israel Assured of God’s Help

“Keep silence before Me, O coastlands, And let the people renew their strength! Let them come near, then let them speak; Let us come near together for judgment.

Everyone helped his neighbor, And said to his brother, “Be of good courage!”

Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’

For I, the Lord your God, will hold your right hand, Saying to you, ‘Fear not, I will help you.’

“Fear not, you worm Jacob, You men of Israel! I will help you,” says the Lord And your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

Promise of the Lord’s Help

“I have held My peace a long time, I have been still and restrained Myself. Now I will cry like a woman in labor, I will pant and gasp at once.

Thus says the Lord who made you And formed you from the womb, who will help you: ‘Fear not, O Jacob My servant; And you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

Thus says the Lord: “In an acceptable time I have heard You, And in the day of salvation I have helped You; I will preserve You and give You As a covenant to the people, To restore the earth, To cause them to inherit the desolate heritages;

“For the Lord God will help Me; Therefore I will not be disgraced; Therefore I have set My face like a flint, And I know that I will not be ashamed.

Surely the Lord God will help Me; Who is he who will condemn Me? Indeed they will all grow old like a garment; The moth will eat them up.

I looked, but there was no one to help, And I wondered That there was no one to uphold; Therefore My own arm brought salvation for Me; And My own fury, it sustained Me.

A Prayer for Help

Oh, that You would rend the heavens! That You would come down! That the mountains might shake at Your presence—

“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Thus you shall say to the king of Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: “Behold, Pharaoh’s army which has come up to help you will return to Egypt, to their own land.

Because of the day that comes to plunder all the Philistines, To cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains; For the Lord shall plunder the Philistines, The remnant of the country of Caphtor.

In the days of her affliction and roaming, Jerusalem remembers all her pleasant things That she had in the days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the enemy, With no one to help her, The adversaries saw her And mocked at her downfall.

You have heard my voice: “Do not hide Your ear From my sighing, from my cry for help.”

The punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people Is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, Which was overthrown in a moment, With no hand to help her!

Still our eyes failed us, Watching vainly for our help; In our watching we watched For a nation that could not save us.

I will scatter to every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his troops; and I will draw out the sword after them.

Then they will know that I am the Lord, When I have set a fire in Egypt And all her helpers are destroyed.

The strong among the mighty Shall speak to him out of the midst of hell With those who help him: ‘They have gone down, They lie with the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’

“They will set apart men regularly employed, with the help of a search party, to pass through the land and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search.

But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; and behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left alone there with the kings of Persia.

Now when they fall, they shall be aided with a little help; but many shall join with them by intrigue.

And he shall plant the tents of his palace between the seas and the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and no one will help him.

So you, by the help of your God, return; Observe mercy and justice, And wait on your God continually.

“O Israel, you are destroyed, But your help is from Me.

Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, And it was boundless; Put and Lubim were your helpers.

I am exceedingly angry with the nations at ease; For I was a little angry, And they helped—but with evil intent.”

Then she came and worshiped Him, saying, “Lord, help me!”

And often he has thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”

He has helped His servant Israel, In remembrance of His mercy,

So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink.

But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me.”

Jesus Promises Another Helper

“If you love Me, keep My commandments.

And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

The Coming Rejection

“But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.

Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you.

If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well,

And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”

And when he desired to cross to Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him; and when he arrived, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;

how I kept back nothing that was helpful, but proclaimed it to you, and taught you publicly and from house to house,

crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, the law, and this place; and furthermore he also brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place.”

Therefore, having obtained help from God, to this day I stand, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said would come—

Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

whenever I journey to Spain, I shall come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while.

that you may receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and assist her in whatever business she has need of you; for indeed she has been a helper of many and of myself also.

Glorify God in Body and Spirit

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

All to the Glory of God

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify.

And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues.

you also helping together in prayer for us, that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the gift granted to us through many.

to pass by way of you to Macedonia, to come again from Macedonia to you, and be helped by you on my way to Judea.

For He says: “In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

And I urge you also, true companion, help these women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

So we may boldly say: “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.