Psalm 89:38
New International Version
But you have rejected, you have spurned, you have been very angry with your anointed one.

New Living Translation
But now you have rejected him and cast him off. You are angry with your anointed king.

English Standard Version
But now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed.

Berean Standard Bible
Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one.

King James Bible
But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

New King James Version
But You have cast off and abhorred, You have been furious with Your anointed.

New American Standard Bible
But You have rejected and refused, You have been full of wrath against Your anointed.

NASB 1995
But You have cast off and rejected, You have been full of wrath against Your anointed.

NASB 1977
But Thou hast cast off and rejected, Thou hast been full of wrath against Thine anointed.

Legacy Standard Bible
But You have cast off and rejected, You have been full of wrath against Your anointed.

Amplified Bible
But [in apparent contradiction of all this] You [the faithful LORD] have cast off and rejected; You have been full of wrath against Your anointed.

Christian Standard Bible
But you have spurned and rejected him; you have become enraged with your anointed.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But You have spurned and rejected him; You have become enraged with Your anointed.

American Standard Version
But thou hast cast off and rejected, Thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And you have forgotten me and despised me and you have turned away the face of your anointed!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But thou hast cast off and set at nought, thou has rejected thine anointed.

Contemporary English Version
You are now angry, LORD, and you have turned your back on your chosen king.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But thou hast rejected and despised: thou hast been angry with thy anointed.

English Revised Version
But thou hast cast off and rejected, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But you have despised, rejected, and become angry with your anointed one.

Good News Translation
But you are angry with your chosen king; you have deserted and rejected him.

International Standard Version
But you have spurned, rejected, and became angry with your anointed one.

JPS Tanakh 1917
But Thou hast cast off and rejected, Thou hast been wroth with Thine anointed.

Literal Standard Version
And You, You have cast off, and reject, | You have shown Yourself angry with Your anointed,

Majority Standard Bible
Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one.

New American Bible
But now you have rejected and spurned, been enraged at your anointed.

NET Bible
But you have spurned and rejected him; you are angry with your chosen king.

New Revised Standard Version
But now you have spurned and rejected him; you are full of wrath against your anointed.

New Heart English Bible
But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

Webster's Bible Translation
But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thy anointed.

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

Young's Literal Translation
And Thou, Thou hast cast off, and dost reject, Thou hast shown Thyself wroth With Thine anointed,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
I Will Sing of His Love Forever
37like the moon, established forever, a faithful witness in the sky.” Selah 38Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one. 39You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:19
When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.

1 Chronicles 28:9
As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

Psalm 20:6
Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He answers him from His holy heaven with the saving power of His right hand.

Psalm 44:9
But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.

Psalm 89:20
I have found My servant David; with My sacred oil I have anointed him.

Psalm 89:51
how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!


Treasury of Scripture

But you have cast off and abhorred, you have been wroth with your anointed.

but

Psalm 44:9
But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

Psalm 60:1,10
To the chief Musician upon Shushaneduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand. O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again…

Psalm 77:7
Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?

and

Psalm 78:59
When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

Psalm 106:40
Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.

Deuteronomy 32:19
And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

wroth

Psalm 89:51
Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

Psalm 84:9
Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.

2 Samuel 1:21
Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.

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Psalm 89
1. The psalmist praises God for his covenant
5. For his wonderful power
15. For the care of his church
19. For his favor to the kingdom of David
38. Then complaining of contrary events
46. He expostulates, prays, and blesses God.














(38) But thou.--The poem takes a new departure here. God is reproached for violating the covenant, and the contrast between the actual condition of things in Israel at present, and the glorious destiny promised, is feelingly set forth.

The boldness of this expostulation has scandalised the Jewish expositors. But see exactly similar language, Psalm 44:9; Psalm 44:22. The point of the poem, indeed, is gone if we soften down these expressions. The stronger the conviction of the inviolability of God's promises, the more vehement becomes the sense of right to expostulate at their seeming violation, the delay of the fulfilment of the covenant. We may illustrate by the Latin poet's

"Hic pietatis honos, sic nos in sceptra reponis?"

VIRGIL: 'n. 1:25.

Verses 38-45. - A sudden and complete change here sets in. Rejoicing is turned into mourning, eulogy into complaint. Notwithstanding all the promises of God, notwithstanding his inherent and essential "faithfulness," the Davidical king and his kingdom are at the last gasp. Seemingly, every promise made has been broken, every hope held out of good turned into an actuality of evil. God is wroth with his anointed, has made void the covenant with him, profaned his crown and cast it to the ground, turned the edge of his sword, and made him not to stand in the battle; he has laid his land open to the enemy, broken down its defenses, brought its strongholds to ruin, given it as a spoil to all who pass by; he has set up the right hand of Israel's adversaries, caused them to rejoice and triumph in Israel's disgrace and suffering; he has covered the king with shame, and cut short the days of his youth. How is this? And what is to be the end of it? Verse 38. - But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. The first "thou" is emphatic - אתּה, THOU, "the faithful Witness;" THOU, who hast made all these promises, art the very One who has falsified them all - who hast "been wroth with thine anointed," abhorred (or rejected) him, and cast him off:

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
But You
וְאַתָּ֣ה (wə·’at·tāh)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

have spurned
זָ֭נַחְתָּ (zā·naḥ·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 2186: Reject, forsake, fail

and rejected him;
וַתִּמְאָ֑ס (wat·tim·’ās)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3988: To spurn, to disappear

You are enraged
הִ֝תְעַבַּ֗רְתָּ (hiṯ·‘ab·bar·tā)
Verb - Hitpael - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass on

by
עִם־ (‘im-)
Preposition
Strong's 5973: With, equally with

Your anointed one.
מְשִׁיחֶֽךָ׃ (mə·šî·ḥe·ḵā)
Adjective - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4899: Anointed, a consecrated person, the Messiah


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