Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
Parallel translations
- WEB Haven’t you rejected us, God? You don’t go out, God, with our armies.
- 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In honest lament, David voices the painful sense that God has withdrawn his help in battle.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
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- 2 Chr 13:12And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
- Ps 44:9But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
- 2 Chr 20:15And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason 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 pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel.
- 1 Sam 17:36Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
- Deut 20:3–4And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;
- 1 Sam 17:26And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
- Num 10:9And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
- 2 Chr 14:11And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.
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