Psalms 129:2
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
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- Matt 16:18 : 18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
- John 16:33 : 33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
- Rom 8:35-39 : 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- 2 Cor 4:8-9 : 8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
- Rev 12:8-9 : 8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. 9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
- Job 5:19 : 19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
- Ps 34:19 : 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
- Ps 42:1 : 1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
- Ps 118:13 : 13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.
- Ps 125:1 : 1 They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
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1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
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12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
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13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
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40 For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.
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18 He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
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15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
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14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.