King James Version, with Nii Okai's journal notes · 2 notes
1O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
2Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
3Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
4Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
5That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.
6God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
7Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
8Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.
9Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
10Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?
11Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
From this psalm it seemed at a point that the armies of Israel were overpowered and seemed to be losing the war.
David cries for help 😣 and pleads with the Lord to come through for Israel.
If this psalm is a true reflection of what happened, then the summaries of events in the book of Samuel and Chronicles are just a summary and omit how tough the battle was and the numerous challenges, including feelings of despair and defeat.
Eventually God came through and Israel won.
This victory is all that is said, and none of the losses and defeats.
It doesn't mean it was all conquest... Just that nothing is mentioned of it.
12Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
Selah, and at the end of the day they did triumph — they did valiantly and conquered the enemy.
This goes to show that in virtually all his battles David did seek the face of the Lord. Especially when things were turned against them, and God heard him.