But You have cast us off and put us to shame, And You do not go out 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.
- BSB But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth 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.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 60:10Haven’t you, God, rejected us? You don’t go out with our armies, God.
- Ps 74:1A contemplation by Asaph. God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
- Ps 108:11Haven’t you rejected us, God? You don’t go out, God, with our armies.
- Ps 60:1For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A teaching poem by David, when he fought with Aram Naharaim and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt. God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.
- Ps 43:2For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
- Jer 33:24–26“Don’t consider what this people has spoken, saying, ‘The two families which Yahweh chose, he has cast them off?’ Thus they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.”
- Ps 89:38–45But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.
- Lam 3:31–32For the Lord will not cast off forever.
- Rom 11:1–6I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
- Ps 80:12–13Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
- Ps 88:14Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? 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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