Psalm 44:9
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9 Yet you have rejected us and shamed us
and have not gone out with our armies.(A)
Psalm 60:10
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10 Have you not rejected us, O God?
You do not go out, O God, with our armies.(A)
Psalm 108:11
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11 Have you not rejected us, O God?
You do not go out, O God, with our armies.(A)
Psalm 74:1
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Psalm 74
Plea for Help in Time of National Humiliation
A Maskil of Asaph.
1 O God, why do you cast us off forever?
Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?(A)
Psalm 60:1
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Psalm 60
Prayer for National Victory after Defeat
To the leader: according to the Lily of the Covenant. A Miktam of David; for instruction; when he struggled with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and when Joab on his return killed twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
1 O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses;
you have been angry; now restore us!(A)
Psalm 43:2
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2 For you are the God in whom I take refuge;
why have you cast me off?
Why must I walk about mournfully
because of the oppression of the enemy?(A)
Psalm 89:38-45
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38 But now you have spurned and rejected him;
you are full of wrath against your anointed.(A)
39 You have renounced the covenant with your servant;
you have defiled his crown in the dust.(B)
40 You have broken through all his walls;
you have laid his strongholds in ruins.(C)
41 All who pass by plunder him;
he has become the scorn of his neighbors.(D)
42 You have exalted the right hand of his foes;
you have made all his enemies rejoice.(E)
43 Moreover, you have turned back the edge of his sword,
and you have not supported him in battle.(F)
44 You have removed the scepter from his hand[a]
and hurled his throne to the ground.(G)
45 You have cut short the days of his youth;
you have covered him with shame. Selah(H)
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- 89.44 Cn: Heb removed his cleanness
Romans 11:1-6
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Israel’s Rejection Is Not Final
11 I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.(A) 2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?(B) 3 “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars; I alone am left, and they are seeking my life.” 4 But what is the divine reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”(C) 5 So, too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. 6 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.[a](D)
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- 11.6 Other ancient authorities add But if it is by works, it is no longer on the basis of grace, otherwise work would no longer be work
Lamentations 3:31-32
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31 For the Lord will not
reject forever.(A)
32 Although he causes grief, he will have compassion
according to the abundance of his steadfast love;(B)
Jeremiah 33:24-26
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24 Have you not observed how these people say, “The two families that the Lord chose have been rejected by him,” and how they hold my people in such contempt that they no longer regard them as a nation?(A) 25 Thus says the Lord: Only if I had not established my covenant with day and night and the ordinances of heaven and earth(B) 26 would I reject the offspring of Jacob and of my servant David and not choose any of his descendants as rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore their fortunes and will have mercy upon them.(C)
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Psalm 88:14
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14 O Lord, why do you cast me off?
Why do you hide your face from me?(A)
Psalm 80:12-13
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12 Why then have you broken down its walls,
so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?(A)
13 The boar from the forest ravages it,
and all that move in the field feed on it.(B)
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