1 Samuel 4:17

I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.

Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies?

God’s ark was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

He gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign which Yahweh has spoken: Behold, the altar will be split apart, and the ashes that are on it will be poured out.”

therefore Yahweh the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I bring such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle.

But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies.

Arise, Yahweh, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength.

Say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears will tingle.

“The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.

But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain. Nevertheless, the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and Moses didn’t depart out of the camp.

Therefore the children of Israel can’t stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.

Those who remain of him will be buried in death. His widows will make no lamentation.

Haven’t you, God, rejected us? You don’t go out with our armies, God.

Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep.

Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

“Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Should the women eat their offspring, the children that they held and bounced on their knees? Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.

It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people,

Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die.

She named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because God’s ark was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there. Then he said, “Yahweh has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of waters.” Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.

David struck also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion at the River.

Hadadezer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the army of Hadadezer at their head.

He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.

“This will be the sign to you: This year, you will eat that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from that; and in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat its fruit.

David defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.

So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message.”

Your turbans will be on your heads, and your sandals on your feet. You won’t mourn or weep; but you will pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.

“Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told you.

men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

‘Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’ ”

They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.

Eleazar Aaron’s son took one of the daughters of Putiel as his wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites according to their families.

According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.

Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle.

Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession, while Israel does valiantly.

Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

Yahweh said to Samuel, “Behold, I will do a thing in Israel at which both the ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.

When the people had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has Yahweh defeated us today before the Philistines? Let’s get the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of Shiloh and bring it to us, that it may come among us and save us out of the hand of our enemies.”

Now the Philistines had taken God’s ark, and they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.

Yahweh’s ark was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn’t come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;

Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring God’s ark here.” For God’s ark was with the children of Israel at that time.

David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”

David earned a reputation when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand men of the Syrians in the Valley of Salt.

For when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom

God raised up an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah.

Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child will die.

Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

“If your people Israel are struck down before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn again and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house;

Amaziah took courage, and led his people out, and went to the Valley of Salt, and struck ten thousand of the children of Seir.

that there came a messenger to Job, and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,

Preserve me, God, for I take refuge in you.

For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.

Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take plunder for themselves.

You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.

Don’t kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.

God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.

How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.

Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.

Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.

“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,

But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven’t supported him in battle.

Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led me to Edom?

Haven’t you rejected us, God? You don’t go out, God, with our armies.

I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”

I will give your substance and your treasures for a plunder without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders.

“They will die grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, neither will they be buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground. They will be consumed by the sword and by famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.”

“Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers.

“I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I have mercy on them; and they will be as though I had not cast them off: for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;