Micah 7:8
¶lRejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; mwhen I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
¶Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
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Proverbs 24:16 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
Proverbs 24:17 Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
Psalms 79:9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
Psalms 37:23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
Revelation 18:21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Lamentations 4:21 ¶Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
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Psalms 27:0 A Psalm of David.
Psalms 107:10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
Psalms 91:15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
Psalms 112:4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
Isaiah 50:10 ¶Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
The prophet in this verse personates the church, and brings her in bespeaking the enemy in this manner:
let it be no pleasure or matter of glorying to time, that the day of calamity hath overtaken me.
Israel of God, the remnant, the faithful, which are the church of God.
O Assyria, Edom, or Babylon. When I fall, into a low condition, into deepest distresses, I shall arise; I shall not always lie in them, God will raise me out of them.
(the prophet intends the good, the few righteous ones among those degenerate multitudes) sit in darkness, when affliction, war, famine, and captivity, as a dismal cloud, shall cover us, and benight the daughter of light, when fallen as low as a captive,
shall support, comfort, and deliver me, his presence and favour shall, as the sun rising, dispel the darkness of the night. This is spoken more especially concerning Judah.