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Posted by Psalms on Tuesday, 9 February 2016
Psalms 129:2
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
129:2. 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. That yet breaks in like the blast of trumpets, or the roll of kettle-drums. “Cast down, but not destroyed,” is the shout of a victor. Israel has wrestled, and has overcome in the struggle. Who wonders? If Israel overcame the angel of the covenant, what man or devil shall vanquish him? The fight was oft renewed and long protracted: the champion severely felt the conflict, and was at times fearful of the issue; but at length he takes breath, and cries, Yet they have not prevailed against me. The enemy has many a time had his opportunity and his advantage, but not so much as once has he gained the victory.
The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
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