Bible Strands
Psalms 44:9
But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist speaks to God, shifting from the collective boasting declared in verse 8 to a direct report of military collapse and perceived divine withdrawal.
The words — The text records זָ֭נַחְתָּ (Za.nach.ta) as "you have rejected" and וַ/תַּכְלִימֵ֑/נוּ (va./takh.li.Me./nu) as "and you have humiliated us," followed by תֵ֝צֵ֗א (te.Tze') "you have gone out" and בְּ/צִבְאוֹתֵֽי/נוּ (be./tziv.'o.Tei./nu) "with our armies."
The thread — The specific combination of divine rejection and the cessation of God marching with Israel's forces appears in Psalms 60:10.
Why it lands — The verse presents the factual claim that military presence has ceased despite prior covenant trust, requiring the reader to account for the gap between professed boasting and observed defeat without supplying comfort.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
Cross-references
- Psalms 60:10 Have You not rejected us, O God? Will You no longer march out, O God, with our armies?
- Psalms 74:1 A Maskil of Asaph. Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
- Psalms 60:1 For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A Miktam of David for instruction. When he fought Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and struck down 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. You have rejected us, O God; You have broken us; You have been angry; restore us!
- Psalms 108:11 Have You not rejected us, O God? Will You no longer march out, O God, with our armies?
- Psalms 43:2 For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?
- Psalms 89:38 Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one.
- Jeremiah 33:24 “Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.
- Lamentations 3:31 For the Lord will not cast us off forever.
- Romans 11:1 I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
- Psalms 80:12 Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?