Psalm 44:9

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Psalm 44:9

But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

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For You are the God of my strength [my stronghold—in whom I take refuge]; why have You rejected me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

O God, You have rejected us and cast us off. You have broken [down our defenses and scattered] us;
You have been angry; O restore us and turn again to us.

O God, why have You rejected us forever?
Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?

Why have You broken down its walls and hedges,
So that all who pass by pick its fruit?

O Lord, why do You reject me?
Why do You hide Your face from me?

But [in apparent contradiction of all this] You [the faithful Lord] have cast off and rejected;
You have been full of wrath against Your anointed.

Have You not rejected us, O God?
And will You not go out, O God, with our armies?

“Have you not noticed what this people have spoken, saying, ‘The two families [Israel the northern kingdom, and Judah the southern kingdom] which the Lord chose, He has rejected’? Thus they despise My [chosen] people, no longer are they [considered] as a nation in their sight.

For the Lord will not reject forever,

I say then, has God rejected and disowned His people? Certainly not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.