Psalms 108:11
in Psalms 108Have You not rejected us, O God? Will You no longer march out, O God, with our armies?
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Hast not thou cast us off, O God? And thou goest not forth, O God, with our hosts.
KJV
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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This verse in Psalms 108
Commentary
10 notes on this verse"You who have cast us off." Was it not you, O God, who have cast us off? He did not say, "Who cast us off," but "Who once cast us off." "And will you not go out, O God, in our powers?" These things are to be read interrogatively: "And will you not go out, O God, in our powers?" You who suffered for us, why do you not help us, but allow us to be trampled by the most cruel devil? "And will you not go out, O God, in our powers?" See what he says.
This site's exposition
bring me to the fortified city
on Psalms 108:10-13
The close is Psalm 60:9 to 12, and it opens with a question about the fortified city of Edom. Verse 11 asks whether God has rejected them and will no longer march, and verse 13 answers that with God they will trample the enemy. The help of man is worthless.
This site's exposition
Have You not rejected us, O God?
This is Psalm 60:10. Psalm 60 opens at verse 1 with the complaint that God has rejected His people, and Psalm 108 leaves that lament out. The question here is the one trace of it left.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
And wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?.... In Psa 60:10, it is, "and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies". See Gill on Psa 60:10.
Thou wilt comfort us again after the time that thou hast afflicted us. " Adverse events are sometimes intended for the trial of the constancy of our faith and prayer, which we ought to persevere in whatever difficulties we meet with, and not to faint.
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — odd-straight-quotes
Who will make me master of the country of Edom, which is yet unsubdued?" The question was probably to be debated in his privy council, or a council of war, what methods they should take to subdue the Edomites and to reduce that country; but he brings it into his prayers, and leaves it in God's hands: Wilt not thou, O God?
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — odd-straight-quotes
It intimates likewise that it is not only allowable, but sometimes convenient, to gather some verses out of one psalm and some out of another, and to put them together, to be sung to the glory of God. In singing this psalm we must give glory to God and take comfort to ourselves.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? This is grand faith which can trust the Lord even when he seems to have cast us off. Some can barely trust him when he pampers them, and yet David relied upon him when Israel seemed under a cloud and the Lord had hidden his face. O for more of this real and living faith. The casting off will not last long when faith so gloriously keeps her hold.
2 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? This is grand faith which can trust the Lord even when he seems to have cast us off. Some can barely trust him when he pampers them, and yet David relied upon him when Israel seemed under a cloud and the Lord had hidden his face. O for more of this real and living faith. The casting off will not last long when faith so gloriously keeps her hold. None but the elect of God who have obtained "like precious faith" can sing— And wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts? Canst thou for ever forsake thine own and leave thy people to be overthrown by thine enemies? The sweet singer is sure that Edom shall be captured, because he cannot and will not believe that God will refrain from going forth with the armies of his chosen people. When we ask ourselves, "Who will be the means of our obtaining a promised blessing?" we need not be discouraged if we perceive no secondary agent, for we may then fall back upon the great Promiser himself, and believe that he himself will perform his word unto us. If no one else will lead us into Edom, the Lord himself will do it, if he has promised it. Or if there must be visible instruments he will use our hosts, feeble as they are. We need not that any new agency should be created, God can strengthen our present hosts and enable them to do all that is needed; all that is wanted even for the conquest of a world is that the Lord go forth with such forces as we already have. He can bring us into the strong city even by such weak weapons as we wield today.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Wilt not thou, O God ... - This is taken from Psa 60:10, with no change in the Hebrew, except that the word “thou” (in the first member of the verse) is omitted.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
Who will bring me in the time of the Messiah, to stretch forth my hand upon Esau in his fortified cities? He Who Who led us already upon Edom, that I smote them in the Valley of Salt, eighteen thousand.
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
Moab is my washbasin i.e., my slaves and my servants, like a utensil that people use.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הֲלֹֽא־ | halo'- | ¿ not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| אֱלֹהִ֥ים | ʾelohim | O God | H430 → | 2601 times |
| זְנַחְתָּ֑נוּ | zenachtanu | have you rejected us | H2186 → | 20 times |
| וְֽלֹא־ | velo'- | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תֵצֵ֥א | tetze' | you go out | H3318 → | 1067 times |
| אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים | ʾelohim | O God | H430 → | 2601 times |
| בְּצִבְאֹתֵֽינוּ׃ | betzivoteinu | with armies our | H6635 → | 485 times |
הֲלֹֽא־¿ not
halo'-H3808 →5168 times
אֱלֹהִ֥יםO God
ʾelohimH430 →2601 times
זְנַחְתָּ֑נוּhave you rejected us
zenachtanuH2186 →20 times
וְֽלֹא־and not
velo'-H3808 →5168 times
תֵצֵ֥אyou go out
tetze'H3318 →1067 times
אֱ֝לֹהִ֗יםO God
ʾelohimH430 →2601 times
בְּצִבְאֹתֵֽינוּ׃with armies our
betzivoteinuH6635 →485 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
2 Chronicles 20:15And he said, “Listen, all you people of Judah and Jerusalem! Listen, King Jehoshaphat! This is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army, for the battle…
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 32:7–8
“Be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged before the king of Assyria and the vast army with him, for there is a greater One with us than with him.
- Deuteronomy 31:6
Be strong and courageous; do not be afraid or terrified of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you.”
- Exodus 14:13–14
But Moses told the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the LORD’s salvation, which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians you see today, you will never…
- 1 Samuel 17:47
And all those assembled here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD’s, and He will give all of you into our…
- Deuteronomy 1:29–30
So I said to you: “Do not be terrified or afraid of them!
- 2 Chronicles 32:7–8
Through
Psalms 44:9But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
it leads to
- Psalms 74:1
Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
- Psalms 60:10
Have You not rejected us, O God? Will You no longer march out, O God, with our armies?
- Psalms 60:1
You have rejected us, O God; You have broken us; You have been angry; restore us!
- Psalms 74:1
About Psalms
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David; Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, Vol. 5; Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Psalms; Jerome, Homily 34, on Psalm 107; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.