Psalm 44:10

Israel's Complaint

⁹ Yet You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor,
And do not go out with our armies.
¹⁰ You cause us to turn back from the adversary;
And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.
¹¹ You give us as sheep to be eaten
And have scattered us among the nations.

For Us

Leviticus 26:17

I will set My face against you so that you will be struck down before your enemies; and those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you.

Joshua 7:8

O Lord, what can I say since Israel has turned their back before their enemies?

Joshua 7:12

Therefore the sons of Israel cannot stand before their enemies; they turn their backs before their enemies, for they have become accursed. I will not be with you anymore unless you destroy the things under the ban from your midst.

Psalm 89:41

All who pass along the way plunder him;
He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

Deuteronomy 28:25

“The Lord shall cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you will go out one way against them, but you will flee seven ways before them, and you will be an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Leviticus 26:14

‘But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments,

Leviticus 26:36-37

As for those of you who may be left, I will also bring weakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf will chase them, and even when no one is pursuing they will flee as though from the sword, and they will fall.

1 Samuel 4:17

Then the one who brought the news replied, “Israel has fled before the Philistines and there has also been a great slaughter among the people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been taken.”

1 Samuel 31:1-7

Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

Isaiah 10:6

I send it against a godless nation
And commission it against the people of My fury
To capture booty and to seize plunder,
And to trample them down like mud in the streets.

Isaiah 10:14

And my hand reached to the riches of the peoples like a nest,
And as one gathers abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth;
And there was not one that flapped its wing or opened its beak or chirped.”

Jeremiah 15:13

“Your wealth and your treasures
I will give for booty without cost,
Even for all your sins
And within all your borders.

Jeremiah 20:8

For each time I speak, I cry aloud;
I proclaim violence and destruction,
Because for me the word of the Lord has resulted
In reproach and derision all day long.