Psalms 89:38

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Psalms 89:36–40 · Berean Standard Bible

36 his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun,

37 like the moon, established forever, a faithful witness in the sky.” Selah

38 Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one.

39 You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.

40 You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.

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Psalms 44:9

But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.

Psalms 44:10

You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.

Psalms 44:11

You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.

Psalms 44:12

You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.

Psalms 44:13

You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.

Psalms 44:14

You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

Psalms 44:15

All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,

Psalms 44:16

at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.

Psalms 44:17

All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.

Psalms 44:18

Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.

Psalms 44:19

But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.

Psalms 44:20

If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

Psalms 44:21

would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?

Psalms 44:22

Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

Psalms 44:23

Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.

Psalms 44:24

Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?

Psalms 44:25

For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.

Psalms 44:26

Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.

Psalms 60:1

You have rejected us, O God; You have broken us; You have been angry; restore us!

Psalms 60:10

Have You not rejected us, O God? Will You no longer march out, O God, with our armies?

Psalms 77:7

“Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again?

1 Chronicles 28:9

As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?

Hosea 9:17

My God will reject them because they have not obeyed Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

Psalms 78:59

On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.

Psalms 106:40

So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.

Deuteronomy 32:19

When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.

Lamentations 2:7

The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.

Zechariah 11:8

And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.

Psalms 89:51

how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!

Psalms 84:9

Take notice of our shield, O God, and look with favor on the face of Your anointed.

2 Samuel 1:21

O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, no fields yielding offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.

2 Samuel 15:26

But if He should say, ‘I do not delight in you,’ then here I am; let Him do to me whatever seems good to Him.”

2 Chronicles 12:1

After Rehoboam had established his sovereignty and royal power, he and all Israel with him forsook the Law of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 12:2

In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem

2 Chronicles 12:3

with 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen, and countless troops who came with him out of Egypt—Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites.

2 Chronicles 12:4

He captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 12:5

Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, “This is what the LORD says: ‘You have forsaken Me; therefore, I have forsaken you into the hand of Shishak.’”

2 Chronicles 12:6

So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.”

2 Chronicles 12:7

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 will soon grant them deliverance. My wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem through Shishak.

2 Chronicles 12:8

Nevertheless, they will become his servants, so that they may learn the difference between serving Me and serving the kings of other lands.”

2 Chronicles 12:9

So King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.

2 Chronicles 12:10

Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place and committed them to the care of the captains of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.

2 Chronicles 12:11

And whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards would go with him, bearing the shields, and later they would return them to the guardroom.

2 Chronicles 12:12

Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the anger of the LORD turned away from him, and He did not destroy him completely. Indeed, conditions were good in Judah.

Lamentations 4:20

The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”

Zechariah 13:7

Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the LORD of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones.