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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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Psa. 3:1‑2• 1A Psalm of David, on his fleeing from the face of Absalom his son.{HR}Jehovah, how have my persecutors multiplied!{HR}Many are rising up against me.
 2Many are saying concerning my soul,{HR}"There is no deliverance for him in God." Selah. (Psa. 3:1‑2)
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Psa. 22:12,16• 12Many bulls have surrounded me;{HR}Strong ones of Bashan have encompassed me.
 16For dogs have surrounded me,{HR}The congregation of evil-doers have encompassed me,{HR}Piercing my hands and my feet. (Psa. 22:12,16)
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Psa. 25:19• 19Look upon mine enemies, for they are many;{HR}And [with] a hatred of violence they have hated me. (Psa. 25:19)
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Psa. 56:2• 2They that lie in wait for me would swallow [me] up all the day,{HR}For many fight proudly against me. (Psa. 56:2)
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Psa. 118:10‑12• 10All nations compass me;{HR}In Jehovah's name surely I will cut them off.
 11They compass me, yea they compass me;{HR}In Jehovah's name surely I will cut them off.
 12They compass me like bees;{HR}They are quenched as a fire of thorns;{HR}In Jehovah's name surely I will cut them off. (Psa. 118:10‑12)
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Matt. 24:9• 9Then shall they give you up to tribulation and shall kill you; and ye shall be hated by 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 of a truth in this city against thy holy servant Jesus whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate with Gentiles and peoples of Israel were gathered, (Acts 4:27)
yet do I.
Psa. 119:51,110• 51Proud [men] deride me exceedingly:{HR}From thy law I swerve not.
 110Wicked [men] laid a snare for me,{HR}Yet (and) from thy precepts I strayed not. (Psa. 119:51,110)
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Psa. 44:17• 17All this has come upon us;{HR}Yet have we not forgotten thee,{HR}And we have not acted falsely to thy covenant. (Psa. 44:17)
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Job 17:9• 9But the righteous shall hold on his way,{HR}And the clean of hands increase in strength. (Job 17:9)
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Job 23:11• 11To his step my foot hath held,{HR}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 crushed till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law. (Isa. 42:4)
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Acts 20:23‑24• 23save that the Holy Spirit testifieth to me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
 24But I hold not my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may accomplish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus to testify the gospel of the grace of God. (Acts 20:23‑24)
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1 Cor. 15:58• 58Wherefore, my brethren beloved, be firm, immoveable, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that your toil is not empty in [the] Lord. (1 Cor. 15:58)

J. N. Darby Translation

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157
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.

W. Kelly Translation

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157
Many [are] my persecutors and mine oppressors;{HR}From thy testimonies I decline not.