Psalms 60:10

David acknowledges that God has rejected them and not gone out with their armies. He honestly confronts the reason for their setbacks.

Cross-references · 15

• Josh 7:12Therefore the children of Israel can’t stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.
• 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.
• Deut 1:42Yahweh said to me, “Tell them, ‘Don’t go up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest you be struck before your enemies.’”
• Deut 20:4for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”
• Isa 8:17I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
• Isa 12:1–2In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.
• Ps 44:5–9Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.
• Ps 118:9–10It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in princes.
• 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 20:7Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust the name of Yahweh our God.
• Josh 10:42Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time, because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
• 1 Sam 4:10–11The Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. There was a very great slaughter; for thirty thousand footmen of Israel fell.
• 1 Sam 4:6–7When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, “What does the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?” They understood that Yahweh’s ark had 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 on Mount Gilboa.

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