You turn back his sword from the adversary, and have not sustained him in battle.
Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will defeat you before the enemy. God is capable of helping or defeating.”
You made us retreat from the enemy. Those who hate us take whatever they want from us.
The Lord has done what he planned; he has fulfilled his promise that he threatened long ago: He has overthrown you without mercy and has enabled the enemy to gloat over you; he has exalted your adversaries’ power. צ (Tsade)
Do not go up, for the Lord is not among you, and you will be defeated before your enemies.
So the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country swooped down and attacked them as far as Hormah.