Psalm 71:11
New Living Translation
11 They say, “God has abandoned him.
Let’s go and get him,
for no one will help him now.”
Psalm 7:2
New Living Translation
2 If you don’t, they will maul me like a lion,
tearing me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
Matthew 27:46
New Living Translation
46 At about three o’clock, Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Eli, Eli,[a] lema sabachthani?” which means “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?”[b]
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Psalm 3:2
New Living Translation
2 So many are saying,
“God will never rescue him!” Interlude[a]
Footnotes
- 3:2 Hebrew Selah. The meaning of this word is uncertain, though it is probably a musical or literary term. It is rendered Interlude throughout the Psalms.
Matthew 27:49
New Living Translation
49 But the rest said, “Wait! Let’s see whether Elijah comes to save him.”[a]
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- 27:49 Some manuscripts add And another took a spear and pierced his side, and out flowed water and blood. Compare John 19:34.
Matthew 27:42-43
New Living Translation
42 “He saved others,” they scoffed, “but he can’t save himself! So he is the King of Israel, is he? Let him come down from the cross right now, and we will believe in him! 43 He trusted God, so let God rescue him now if he wants him! For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”
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Daniel 3:15
New Living Translation
15 I will give you one more chance to bow down and worship the statue I have made when you hear the sound of the musical instruments.[a] But if you refuse, you will be thrown immediately into the blazing furnace. And then what god will be able to rescue you from my power?”
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- 3:15 Aramaic the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and other musical instruments.
Psalm 50:22
New Living Translation
22 Repent, all of you who forget me,
or I will tear you apart,
and no one will help you.
Psalm 42:10
New Living Translation
10 Their taunts break my bones.
They scoff, “Where is this God of yours?”
Psalm 41:7-8
New Living Translation
7 All who hate me whisper about me,
imagining the worst.
8 “He has some fatal disease,” they say.
“He will never get out of that bed!”
Psalm 37:28
New Living Translation
28 For the Lord loves justice,
and he will never abandon the godly.
He will keep them safe forever,
but the children of the wicked will die.
Psalm 37:25
New Living Translation
25 Once I was young, and now I am old.
Yet I have never seen the godly abandoned
or their children begging for bread.
2 Chronicles 32:13-14
New Living Translation
13 “Surely you must realize what I and the other kings of Assyria before me have done to all the people of the earth! Were any of the gods of those nations able to rescue their people from my power? 14 Which of their gods was able to rescue its people from the destructive power of my predecessors? What makes you think your God can rescue you from me?
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