You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain upon you nor bounteous fields! For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, anointed with oil no more.
Psalm 89:38 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 But now you have spurned and rejected him; you are full of wrath against your anointed. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, Thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But [in apparent contradiction to all this] You [even You the faithful Lord] have cast off and rejected; You have been full of wrath against Your anointed. American Standard Version (1901) But thou hast cast off and rejected, Thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. Common English Bible But you, God, have rejected and despised him. You’ve become infuriated with your anointed one. |
You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain upon you nor bounteous fields! For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, anointed with oil no more.
But if he says, ‘I take no pleasure in you,’ here I am, let him do to me what seems good to him.”
“And you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve him with single mind and willing heart, for the Lord searches every mind and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will abandon you forever.
Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people, and he abhorred his heritage;
O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses; you have been angry; now restore us!
Have you not rejected us, O God? You do not go out, O God, with our armies.
with which your enemies taunt, O Lord, with which they taunted the footsteps of your anointed.
You will be in the right, O Lord, when I lay charges against you, but let me put my case to you. Why does the way of the guilty prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
The Lord has scorned his altar, disowned his sanctuary; he has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; a clamor was raised in the house of the Lord as on a day of festival.
The Lord’s anointed, the breath of our life, was taken in their pits— the one of whom we said, “Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.”
Because they have not listened to him, my God will reject them; they shall become wanderers among the nations.
In one month I disposed of the three shepherds, for I had become impatient with them, and they also detested me.
“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate,” says the Lord of hosts. “Strike the shepherd, that the sheep may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.