Psalm 89:43

Translations

Modern

You have bent the edge of his sword and have not sustained him in battle.

Traditional

Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.

Literal

Also You have turned back the sharpness of his sword, and You have not made it stand in the battle.

Latin

Avertisti adjutorium gladii ejus, et non es auxiliatus ei in bello.

Original

Hebrew

English

You have bent the edge of his sword and have not sustained him in battle.

Notes

Psalms 89:1–52

Book Three (Psalms 73–89) starts and ends with serious questions. Psalm 89 begins with praise for how the Lord established David’s throne and kingdom (89:1–37). But later the psalmist protests that the Lord seems to have rejected his covenant with David (Psalm 89:38–51; see 2 Samuel 7:8–16).

Theme notes and profiles

God’s Covenant with David Making Sense of the Exile Questions and Doubt Royal Psalms The Creator-King

Related verses

2 Chronicles 25:8
Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will overthrow you before the enemy, for God has power to help and power to overthrow.”
Numbers 14:42
Do not go up, lest you be struck down by your enemies, because the LORD is not among you.
Leviticus 26:36–37
As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.
Joshua 7:8–12
O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?
Numbers 14:45
Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that part of the hill country came down, attacked them, and routed them all the way to Hormah.
Ezekiel 30:21–25
“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. See, it has not been bound up for healing, or splinted for strength to hold the sword.
Joshua 7:4–5
So about three thousand men went up, but they fled before the men of Ai.
Psalm 44:10
You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.

Glossary

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Topics

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Psalm 89:43

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