Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
Parallel translations
- WEB “Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?
- BSB “Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again?
- NKJV Will the Lord cast off forever? And will He be favorable no more?
- NASB ¶Will the Lord reject forever? And will He never be favorable again?
- NLT Has the Lord rejected me forever? Will he never again be kind to me?
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Quick answer
Asaph asks whether the Lord will reject His people forever and never again show favor.
Overview
The psalmist voices the agonizing fear that God has permanently abandoned him. These raw questions express the depths of doubt that suffering can produce. Yet by addressing them to God Himself, Asaph keeps the door of faith open, and Scripture's larger witness answers that God will never finally cast off His own.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Ps 85:1Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
- Lam 3:31–32For the LORD will not cast off for ever:
- Rom 11:1–2I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
- Ps 89:46How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
- Ps 85:5Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
- Ps 13:1–2How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
- Ps 37:24Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.
- Ps 89:38But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
- Ps 74:1O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
- Ps 79:5How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
- Ps 44:9But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
- Jer 23:24–26Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
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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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