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Psalm 60:10
Haven’t you, God, rejected us? You don’t go out with our armies, God.
8Moab is my wash basin. I will throw my sandal on Edom. I shout in triumph over Philistia.”
9Who will bring me into the strong city? Who has led me to Edom?
10Haven’t you, God, rejected us? You don’t go out with our armies, God.
11Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain.
12Through God we will do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down our adversaries.
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Israel’s armies face battle without God’s help, and the prayer’s hardest question concerns rejection by the God on whom their strength depends.
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Psalm 44:9But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies.Both prayers name rejection by God and his absence from their armies, making military distress a matter brought before him.
Joshua 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 …Both passages describe Israel facing enemies without God’s presence, though Joshua names a cause that this verse does not supply.
Exodus 11:4Moses said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘About midnight I will go out into the middle of Egypt,Both speak of God going out, though Exodus announces his movement into Egypt while the psalm laments his absence from Israel’s armies.
Psalm 108:11Haven’t you rejected us, God? You don’t go out, God, with our armies.Both verses ask whether God has rejected his people and declare that he does not go out with their armies.
Psalm 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 …The opening prayer names the same rejection that returns here, asking God to restore the people he has broken down.
Deuteronomy 1:42The LORD said to me, “Tell them, ‘Don’t go up and don’t fight; for I am not among you, lest you be struck before your enemies.’”Both passages connect Israel’s danger in battle with God’s absence from among them.
Psalm 74:1A contemplation by Asaph. God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?Both prayers address God with the question of rejection, speaking from the distress of a whole people.
Deuteronomy 20:4for the LORD your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”God going with Israel into battle is central to both texts, promised in Deuteronomy and lamented as absent in the psalm.
Joshua 10:42Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time because the LORD, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.Both passages make God’s involvement decisive for Israel’s armies: Joshua records his help, while the psalm laments its absence.
Isaiah 12:1–2In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, the LORD; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.Both address God amid the effects of his displeasure, though Isaiah thanks him for comfort while the psalm questions rejection.
1 Chronicles 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.Both concern Israel’s armies in distress, though the supplied Chronicles verse describes battlefield losses without explaining God’s role.
Jeremiah 33:24–26“Don’t consider what this people has spoken, saying, ‘Has the LORD cast off the two families which he chose?’ Thus they despise my people, that they should be …Both raise the question of God rejecting his people, voiced as prayer in the psalm and reported speech in Jeremiah.
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Feeling distant from God. doubt. fear for the future.
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