Psalms 30:6
In prosperity I said, “I will never be shaken.”
BSB
ASV
As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved.
KJV
And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
HOMILIES on the PSALMS 14:5 (PS 30) (379)
As the prosperity of a city is dependent on the supply of goods for sale in the market, and as we say that a country is prosperous that produces much fruit, so also there is a certain prosperity of the soul when it has been filled with works of every kind. It is necessary first for it to be laboriously cultivated and then to be enriched by the plentiful streams of heavenly waters, so as to bear fruit thirtyfold, sixtyfold and a hundredfold and to obtain the blessing that says, "Blessed shall be your barns and blessed your stores."
In my prosperity. When all his foes were quiet, and his rebellious son dead and buried, then was the time of peril. Many a vessel founders in a calm. No temptation is so bad as tranquillity. I said, I shall never be moved. Ah! David, you said more than was wise to say, or even to think, for God has founded the world upon the floods, to show us what a poor, mutable, moveable, inconstant world it is. Unhappy he who builds upon it! He builds himself a dungeon for his hopes.
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The walk8
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Psalms 16:8I have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
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He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress; I will not be shaken.
David says about Him: ‘I saw the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
Yet I am always with You; You hold my right hand.
The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is the shade on your right hand.
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
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2 Corinthians 12:7or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
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But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they will harass you…
So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.”
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Luke 12:19Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’
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Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.