Psalm 89:38
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38 But now you have spurned and rejected him;
you are full of wrath against your anointed.(A)
1 Chronicles 28:9
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9 “And you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve him with single mind and willing heart, for the Lord searches every mind and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will abandon you forever.(A)
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Deuteronomy 32:19
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Psalm 89:51
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51 with which your enemies taunt, O Lord,
with which they taunted the footsteps of your anointed.(A)
Zechariah 13:7
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The Shepherd Struck, the Flock Scattered
7 “Awake, O sword, against my shepherd,
against the man who is my associate,”
says the Lord of hosts.
“Strike the shepherd, that the sheep may be scattered;
I will turn my hand against the little ones.(A)
Zechariah 11:8
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8 In one month I disposed of the three shepherds, for I had become impatient with them, and they also detested me.(A)
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Hosea 9:17
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17 Because they have not listened to him,
my God will reject them;
they shall become wanderers among the nations.(A)
Lamentations 4:20
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20 The Lord’s anointed, the breath of our life,
was taken in their pits—
the one of whom we said, “Under his shadow
we shall live among the nations.”(A)
Lamentations 2:7
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7 The Lord has scorned his altar,
disowned his sanctuary;
he has delivered into the hand of the enemy
the walls of her palaces;
a clamor was raised in the house of the Lord
as on a day of festival.(A)
Jeremiah 12:1
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Jeremiah Complains to God
12 You will be in the right, O Lord,
when I lay charges against you,
but let me put my case to you.
Why does the way of the guilty prosper?
Why do all who are treacherous thrive?(A)
Psalm 106:40
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40 Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people,
and he abhorred his heritage;(A)
Psalm 84:9
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9 Behold our shield, O God;
look on the face of your anointed.(A)
Psalm 78:59
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59 When God heard, he was full of wrath,
and he utterly rejected Israel.
Psalm 77:7
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7 “Will the Lord spurn forever
and never again be favorable?(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 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 44:9-26
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9 Yet you have rejected us and shamed us
and have not gone out with our armies.(A)
10 You made us turn back from the foe,
and our enemies have gotten spoil.(B)
11 You have made us like sheep for slaughter
and have scattered us among the nations.(C)
12 You have sold your people for a trifle,
demanding no high price for them.(D)
13 You have made us the taunt of our neighbors,
the derision and scorn of those around us.(E)
14 You have made us a byword among the nations,
a laughingstock[a] among the peoples.(F)
15 All day long my disgrace is before me,
and shame has covered my face
16 at the words of the taunters and revilers,
at the sight of the enemy and the avenger.(G)
17 All this has come upon us,
yet we have not forgotten you
or been false to your covenant.(H)
18 Our heart has not turned back,
nor have our steps departed from your way,(I)
19 yet you have broken us in the haunt of jackals
and covered us with deep darkness.(J)
20 If we had forgotten the name of our God
or spread out our hands to a strange god,(K)
21 would not God discover this?
For he knows the secrets of the heart.(L)
22 Because of you we are being killed all day long
and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.(M)
23 Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord?
Awake, do not cast us off forever!(N)
24 Why do you hide your face?
Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?(O)
25 For we sink down to the dust;
our bodies cling to the ground.(P)
26 Rise up, come to our help.
Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love.(Q)
Footnotes
- 44.14 Heb a shaking of the head
2 Chronicles 12:1-12
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Egypt Attacks Judah
12 When the rule of Rehoboam was established and he grew strong, he abandoned the law of the Lord, he and all Israel with him.(A) 2 In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, because they had been unfaithful to the Lord, King Shishak of Egypt came up against Jerusalem(B) 3 with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand cavalry. A countless army came with him from Egypt: Libyans, Sukkiim, and Cushites.(C) 4 He took the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem. 5 Then the prophet Shemaiah came to Rehoboam and to the officers of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak and said to them, “Thus says the Lord: You abandoned me, so I have abandoned you to the hand of Shishak.”(D) 6 Then the officers of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The Lord is in the right.”(E) 7 When the Lord saw that they had humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves; I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.(F) 8 Nevertheless, they shall be his servants, so that they may know the difference between serving me and serving the kingdoms of other lands.”(G)
9 So King Shishak of Egypt came up against Jerusalem; he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house; he took everything. He also took away the shields of gold that Solomon had made,(H) 10 but King Rehoboam made in place of them shields of bronze and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard who kept the door of the king’s house. 11 Whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the guard would come along bearing them and would then bring them back to the guardroom. 12 Because he humbled himself, the wrath of the Lord turned from him, so as not to destroy them completely; moreover, conditions were good in Judah.(I)
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2 Samuel 15:26
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26 But if he says, ‘I take no pleasure in you,’ here I am, let him do to me what seems good to him.”(A)
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2 Samuel 1:21
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21 You mountains of Gilboa,
let there be no dew or rain upon you
nor bounteous fields![a]
For there the shield of the mighty was defiled,
the shield of Saul, anointed with oil no more.(A)
Footnotes
- 1.21 Meaning of Heb uncertain
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