But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
Parallel translations
- WEB But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies.
- KJV But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
- NKJV But You have cast us off and put us to shame, And You do not go out with our armies.
- NASB ¶Yet You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor, And do not go out with our armies.
- NLT But now you have tossed us aside in dishonor. You no longer lead our armies to battle.
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Quick answer
Now, the psalmist laments, God has rejected and dishonored His people and no longer marches with their armies. It matters because it voices honest grief when God seems absent in defeat.
Overview
The mood shifts sharply from confident praise to painful complaint. The people feel cast off and humiliated, sensing God no longer goes before them in battle. Such honest lament, offered in faith, is part of biblical prayer and finds its deepest answer in the cross, where God seemed to abandon His Son so He would never forsake His people.
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Cross-references · 11
- Ps 60:10Have You not rejected us, O God? Will You no longer march out, O God, with our armies?
- Ps 74:1A Maskil of Asaph. Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
- Ps 108:11Have You not rejected us, O God? Will You no longer march out, O God, with our armies?
- Ps 60:1For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A Miktam of David for instruction. When he fought Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and struck down 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. You have rejected us, O God; You have broken us; You have been angry; restore us!
- Ps 43:2For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?
- Jer 33:24–26“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.
- Ps 89:38–45Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one.
- Lam 3:31–32For the Lord will not cast us off forever.
- Rom 11:1–6I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
- Ps 80:12–13Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?
- Ps 88:14Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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