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Psalm 119

Psa. 119:157 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Many
rab (Hebrew #7227)
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
KJV usage: (in) abound(-undance, -ant, -antly), captain, elder, enough, exceedingly, full, great(-ly, man, one), increase, long (enough, (time)), (do, have) many(-ifold, things, a time), ((ship-))master, mighty, more, (too, very) much, multiply(-tude), officer, often(-times), plenteous, populous, prince, process (of time), suffice(-lent).
Pronounce: rab
Origin: by contracted from 7231
are my persecutors
radaph (Hebrew #7291)
to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively (of time) gone by)
KJV usage: chase, put to flight, follow (after, on), hunt, (be under) persecute(-ion, -or), pursue(-r).
Pronounce: raw-daf'
Origin: a primitive root
and mine enemies
tsar (Hebrew #6862)
from 6887; narrow; (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble); also a pebble (as in 6864); (transitive) an opponent (as crowding)
KJV usage: adversary, afflicted(-tion), anguish, close, distress, enemy, flint, foe, narrow, small, sorrow, strait, tribulation, trouble.
Pronounce: tsar
Origin: or tsar {tsawr}
; yet do I not decline
natah (Hebrew #5186)
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
KJV usage: + afternoon, apply, bow (down, - ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
Pronounce: naw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
from thy testimonies
`eduwth (Hebrew #5715)
testimony
KJV usage: testimony, witness.
Pronounce: ay-dooth'
Origin: feminine of 5707
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Cross References

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Psa. 3:1‑2• 1A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. Jehovah, how many are they that trouble me, many they that rise up against me!
 2Many say of my soul, There is no salvation for him in God. Selah. (Psa. 3:1‑2)
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Psa. 22:12,16• 12Many bulls have encompassed me; Bashan's strong ones have beset me round.
 16For dogs have encompassed me; an assembly of evil-doers have surrounded me: they pierced my hands and my feet. (Psa. 22:12,16)
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Psa. 25:19• 19Consider mine enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with cruel hatred. (Psa. 25:19)
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Psa. 56:2• 2Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; for they are many that fight against me haughtily. (Psa. 56:2)
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Psa. 118:10‑12• 10All nations encompassed me; but in the name of Jehovah have I destroyed them.
 11They encompassed me, yea, encompassed me; but in the name of Jehovah have I destroyed them.
 12They encompassed me like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of Jehovah have I destroyed them. (Psa. 118:10‑12)
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Matt. 24:9• 9Then shall they deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you; and ye will be hated of all the nations for my name's sake. (Matt. 24:9)
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Matt. 26:47• 47And while he was yet speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great crowd with swords and sticks from the chief priests and elders of the people. (Matt. 26:47)
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Acts 4:27• 27For in truth against thy holy servant Jesus, whom thou hadst anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the nations, and peoples of Israel, have been gathered together in this city (Acts 4:27)
yet do I.
Psa. 119:51,110• 51The proud have derided me beyond measure: I have not declined from thy law.
 110The wicked have laid a snare for me; but I have not wandered from thy precepts. (Psa. 119:51,110)
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Psa. 44:17• 17All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely against thy covenant: (Psa. 44:17)
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Job 17:9• 9But the righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall increase in strength. (Job 17:9)
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Job 23:11• 11My foot hath held to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside. (Job 23:11)
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Isa. 42:4• 4He shall not faint nor be in haste, till he have set justice in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law. (Isa. 42:4)
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Acts 20:23‑24• 23only that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city, saying that bonds and tribulations await me.
 24But I make no account of my life as dear to myself, so that I finish my course, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of God. (Acts 20:23‑24)
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1 Cor. 15:58• 58So then, my beloved brethren, be firm, immovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord. (1 Cor. 15:58)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Many are my persecutors and mine oppressorse; I have not declined from thy testimonies.

JND Translation Notes

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Tzar, or "adversaries," as Ps. 8.2; 108.13.