Toni’s Title
Has God Forgotten Us?
ESV Title
He Will Tread Down His Foes
Literary Type
This is a community lament.
Laments
More than 1/3 of the Psalms fall into the category of complaints to God in situations of limitation or threat. These laments were a form of prayer and praise based on the conviction that God is concerned about people and answers the human cry in ways surpassing human expectation or understanding. Israel’s laments out of distress were a way of praising God even when he seemed absent. The faith of the psalmists is founded on the good news that God intervenes in desperate situations to help those who are distressed. The psalmists share a deep confidence that God is compassionate, concerned, hearing his people and involved with them; God is faithful and trustworthy. A lament is an outcry to God from a responsive heart. Laments came from individuals or from the community.
Examples: Psalms 3-5, 22, 27:7-14, 42, 51, 69, 90, 130, 137 and many others
NT Prayer Guide
Rev. 3:14-22
Superscription
To the choirmaster: according to Shushan Eduth. A Miktam of David; for instruction; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and when Joab on his return struck down twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.
60
Deus, repulisti nos
1 O God, you have cast us out and scattered us abroad; *
you have been so displeased; O turn unto us again.
2 You have made the land to quake and divided it; *
heal the breaches in it, for it shakes.
3 You have made your people to drink a cup of bitterness; *
you have filled us with wine that makes us stagger.
4 You have set up a banner for those who fear you, *
that they may triumph because of the truth.
5 That your beloved may be delivered, *
help me with your right hand and hear me.
6 God has spoken in his holiness: *
“I will rejoice and divide Shechem, and parcel out the valley of Succoth.
7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; *
Ephraim also is the helmet for my head; Judah is my scepter.
8 Moab is my wash pot; on Edom I will cast my shoe; *
over Philistia will I shout in triumph.”
9 Who will lead me into the strong city? *
Who will bring me into Edom?
10 Have you not cast us out, O God? *
Will you not, O God, go out with our armies?
11 O be our help in trouble, *
for vain is the help of man.
12 Through God we will do great acts, *
for it is he who shall tread down our enemies.