For You are the (A)God of my strength; why have You (B)rejected me?
Why do I go about (C)mourning [a]because of the oppression of the enemy?

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  1. Psalm 43:2 Or while the enemy oppresses

You are God my stronghold.
    Why have you rejected(A) me?
Why must I go about mourning,(B)
    oppressed by the enemy?(C)

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For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

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Grieving over Defeat in Battle, and Prayer for Help.

For the music director; according to [a]Shushan Eduth. A [b]Mikhtam of David, to teach; [c]when he fought with Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.

60 God, (A)You have rejected us. You have [d](B)broken us;
You have been (C)angry; (D)restore us!

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  1. Psalm 60 Title Lit The lily of testimony
  2. Psalm 60 Title Possibly, Epigrammatic Poem or Atonement Psalm
  3. Psalm 60 Title 2 Sam 8:3, 13; 1 Chr 18:3, 12
  4. Psalm 60:1 Or broken out upon us

Psalm 60[a](A)

For the director of music. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A miktam[b] of David. For teaching. When he fought Aram Naharaim[c] and Aram Zobah,[d] and when Joab returned and struck down twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.(B)

You have rejected us,(C) God, and burst upon us;
    you have been angry(D)—now restore us!(E)

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  1. Psalm 60:1 In Hebrew texts 60:1-12 is numbered 60:3-14.
  2. Psalm 60:1 Title: Probably a literary or musical term
  3. Psalm 60:1 Title: That is, Arameans of Northwest Mesopotamia
  4. Psalm 60:1 Title: That is, Arameans of central Syria

60 O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.

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10 Have You Yourself not (A)rejected us, God?
And (B)will You not go out with our armies, God?

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10 Is it not you, God, you who have now rejected us
    and no longer go out with our armies?(A)

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10 Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?

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An Appeal against the Devastation of the Land by the Enemy.

A [a]Maskil of Asaph.

74 God, why have You (A)rejected us forever?
Why does Your anger (B)smoke against the (C)sheep of Your [b]pasture?

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  1. Psalm 74 Title Possibly, Contemplative; or Didactic; or Skillful Psalm
  2. Psalm 74:1 Or pasturing

Psalm 74

A maskil[a] of Asaph.

O God, why have you rejected(A) us forever?(B)
    Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?(C)

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  1. Psalm 74:1 Title: Probably a literary or musical term

74 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

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38 But You have (A)rejected and (B)refused,
You have been full of wrath [a]against Your (C)anointed.

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  1. Psalm 89:38 Lit with

38 But you have rejected,(A) you have spurned,
    you have been very angry with your anointed one.

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38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

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11 God, have You Yourself not (A)rejected us?
And will You not go forth with our armies, God?

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11 Is it not you, God, you who have rejected us
    and no longer go out with our armies?(A)

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11 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?

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