Psalms 129:2
many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, but they have not prevailed against me.
BSB
ASV
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up: Yet they have not prevailed against me.
KJV
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
Many a time have they afflicted, me from my youth. Israel repeats her statement of her repeated afflictions. The fact was uppermost in her thoughts, and she could not help soliloquizing upon it again and again. These repetitions are after the manner of poetry: thus she makes a sonnet out of her sorrows, music out of her miseries. "Yet they have not prevailed against me." We seem to hear the beat of timbrels and the clash of cymbals here: the foe is derided; his malice has failed.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
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Through
Matthew 16:18And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
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Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,
For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
So this is what the Lord GOD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken.
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Psalms 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
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The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears; He delivers them from all their troubles.
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something strange were happening to you.
This poor man called out, and the LORD heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.
For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.
I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”