Have You not rejected us, O God? Will You no longer march out, O God, with our armies?
Parallel translations
- WEB Haven’t you, God, rejected us? You don’t go out with our armies, God.
- KJV Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out 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 Have You Yourself not rejected us, God? And will You not go out 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 acknowledges that God has rejected them and not gone out with their armies. He honestly confronts the reason for their setbacks.
Overview
David recognizes that recent defeats stem from God withholding his help, not from mere bad fortune. He faces this hard truth directly in prayer rather than evading it. Such candor about God's discipline is the path back to restored fellowship and renewed help.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Josh 7:12This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs and run from their enemies, because they themselves have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be with you unless you remove from among you whatever is devoted to destruction.
- 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!
- Deut 1:42But the LORD said to me, “Tell them not to go up and fight, for I am not with you to keep you from defeat by your enemies.”
- Deut 20:4For the LORD your God goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.”
- Isa 8:17I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.
- Isa 12:1–2In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.
- Ps 44:5–9Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.
- Ps 118:9–10It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes.
- 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 20:7Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
- Josh 10:42And because the LORD, the God of Israel, fought for Israel, Joshua captured all these kings and their land in one campaign.
- 1 Sam 4:10–11So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. The slaughter was very great—thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.
- 1 Sam 4:6–7On hearing the noise of the shout, the Philistines asked, “What is this loud shouting in the camp of the Hebrews?” And when they realized that the ark of the LORD had entered the camp,
- 1 Chr 10:1–14Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa.
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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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