Psalms 60:1

After national defeat, David cries that God has rejected and broken his people, and pleads for restoration. It teaches Israel to seek God even when discipline has fallen.

Cross-references · 34

• 2 Sam 8:12–13of Syria, of Moab, of the children of Ammon, of the Philistines, of Amalek, and of the plunder of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
• 2 Sam 8:3David struck also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion at the River.
• Ps 44:9But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies.
• 2 Sam 5:20David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there. Then he said, “Yahweh has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of waters.” Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.
• 1 Chr 18:12–13Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
• 1 Chr 18:3David defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.
• 2 Kgs 14:7He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.
• Ps 85:4Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.
• Ps 90:13Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!
• 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 4:17He who brought the news answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark has been captured.”
• 1 Sam 13:11Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn’t come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;
• 1 Sam 13:6–7When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were distressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in tombs, and in pits.
• 1 Sam 31:1–7Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.
• 1 Chr 19:16–19When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they sent messengers, and called out the Syrians who were beyond the River, with Shophach the captain of the army of Hadadezer leading them.
• 1 Chr 28:9You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
• 2 Chr 25:11Amaziah took courage, and led his people out, and went to the Valley of Salt, and struck ten thousand of the children of Seir.
• Lam 3:31–32For the Lord will not cast off forever.
• 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 59:11Don’t kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.
• Ps 79:5How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
• Ps 89:3“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,
• Ps 59:1For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A poem by David, when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.
• Ps 80:3Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
• Rom 11:1–2I 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 60:10Haven’t you, God, rejected us? You don’t go out with our armies, God.
• Ps 89:19Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, “I have given strength to the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.
• Ps 79:9Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.
• Ps 108:11Haven’t you rejected us, God? You don’t go out, God, with our armies.
• 2 Sam 10:16Hadadezer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the army of Hadadezer at their head.
• 1 Sam 13:19–22Now there was no blacksmith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears”;
• Zech 10:6“I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I have mercy on them; and they will be as though I had not cast them off: for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.
• Ps 89:38But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.
• Ps 89:7a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?

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