Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?
Parallel translations
- WEB Haven’t you, God, rejected us? You don’t go out with our armies, God.
- 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 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 7:12Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.
- Ps 108:11Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
- Ps 60:1O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
- Deut 1:42And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.
- Deut 20:4For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
- Isa 8:17And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
- Isa 12:1–2And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
- Ps 44:5–9Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
- Ps 118:9–10It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.
- Jer 33:24–26Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
- Ps 20:7Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
- Josh 10:42And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.
- 1 Sam 4:10–11And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
- 1 Sam 4:6–7And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the LORD was come into the camp.
- 1 Chr 10:1–14Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
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