2 Chronicles 20:12
O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee. O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
The verse is Jehoshaphat's prayer when the children of Moab and Ammon and others came against him in a great multitude from beyond the sea. In fear he set himself to seek the Lord and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah, and Judah gathered from all the cities to ask help of the Lord, standing in the house of the Lord before the new court. The prayer first addresses the Lord as the God of the fathers, God in heaven ruling over the kingdoms of the heathen with power and might that none can withstand. It recalls that Israel spared Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir when coming out of Egypt, yet now they reward Israel by coming to cast them out of the possession God gave them to inherit.
Judah confesses that it has no might or strength against the great company and invading coalition that comes against it and does not know what to do or what action to take, but its eyes are upon God in trust and dependence. That trust rests on God's past deliverances, on the people having been taught to trust Him, and on reliance on His power and promises pleaded in prayer. Jehoshaphat asks God to judge and confound the enemies while the people are in danger of losing the land God gave them, so that His name will be glorified.
God answered the threatened people that the battle was His and called them not to fear, and He brought them deliverance as they fasted and prayed together and worshiped and praised Him. God is the strength of His people today, so they are not to trust in princes or set fallible and erring human beings in the place of God, but to remember God as their strong tower of defense. They are to look not at supposed impossibilities but to Him who has all power, to feel in every emergency that the battle is His, and to know His resources are limitless so that apparent impossibilities will make the victory all the greater.
When God's people face danger beyond their strength, the verse teaches them to turn their eyes to God, depend on Him, and have confidence in His saving help. When difficult cases leave people unsure what to do, the verse teaches them to look to God rather than rely on their own judgment. In humility and contrition they are to cast themselves at Jesus' feet, believe, and rest in God's promise to guide them.