2 Kings 6:27
Good News Translation
He replied, "If the LORD won't help you, what help can I provide? Do I have any wheat or wine?

New Revised Standard Version
He said, “No! Let the LORD help you. How can I help you? From the threshing floor or from the wine press?”

Contemporary English Version
"Let the LORD help you!" the king said. "Do you think I have grain or wine to give you?"

New American Bible
He replied, “If the LORD does not save you, where could I find means to save you? On the threshing floor? In the wine press?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said: If the Lord doth not save thee, how can I save thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? And the king said to her: What aileth thee? And she answered:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said: If the Lord doth not save thee, how can I save thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? And the king said to her: What aileth thee? And she answered:

If the lord, etc.

Psalm 60:11 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the salvation of man.

Psalm 62:8 Trust in him, all ye congregation of people: pour out your hearts before him. God is our helper for ever.

Psalm 118:8,9 It is good to confide in the Lord, rather than to have confidence in man. . . .

Psalm 124:1-3 A gradual canticle. If it had not been that the Lord was with us, let Israel now say: . . .

Psalm 127:1 A gradual canticle of Solomon. Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.

Psalm 146:3 In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.

Isaiah 2:2 And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it.

Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.

Context
The Siege and Famine of Samaria
26And as the king of Israel was passing by the wall, a certain woman cried out to him, saying: Save me, my lord, O king. 27And he said: If the Lord doth not save thee, how can I save thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? And the king said to her: What aileth thee? And she answered:28This woman said to me: Give thy son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.…
Cross References
Genesis 50:10
And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days.

2 Kings 6:26
And as the king of Israel was passing by the wall, a certain woman cried out to him, saying: Save me, my lord, O king.

2 Kings 6:28
This woman said to me: Give thy son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.

2 Kings 6:26
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