Haven’t you rejected us, God? You don’t go out, God, with our armies.
Parallel translations
- KJV Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
- BSB Have You not rejected us, O God? Will You no longer march out, O God, with our armies?
- NKJV Is it not You, O God, who cast us off? And You, O God, who did not go out with our armies?
- NASB God, have You Yourself not rejected us? And will You not go forth with our armies, God?
- NLT Have you rejected us, O God? Will you no longer march with our armies?
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Quick answer
David wonders aloud whether God has rejected them, since he has not gone out with their armies.
Overview
In honest lament, David voices the painful sense that God has withdrawn his help in battle. Yet even this complaint is addressed to God, showing faith mingled with struggle. Such candid prayer in seasons of apparent abandonment encourages believers to bring their doubts to God, who in Christ never finally forsakes his own.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- 2 Chr 13:12Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you will not prosper.”
- Ps 44:9But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies.
- 2 Chr 20:15and he said, “Listen, all Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you, king Jehoshaphat. Yahweh says to you, ‘Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed because of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s.
- 1 Sam 29:1–11Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek; and the Israelites encamped by the spring which is in Jezreel.
- 1 Sam 17:36Your servant struck both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God.”
- Deut 20:3–4and shall tell them, “Hear, Israel, you draw near today to battle against your enemies. Don’t let your heart faint! Don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;
- 1 Sam 17:26David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, “What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
- Num 10:9When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.
- 2 Chr 14:11Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don’t let man prevail against you.”
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