Micah 7:8
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.
अध्ययन टिप्पणी
Study Note
The defiant confidence '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' is one of the Hebrew Bible's most direct expressions of resurrection-shaped hope — falling is not final because God is light in the darkness. The genre is a communal lament responding to an unnamed enemy who gloats over Judah's fallen state — the enemy is probably Edom or Babylon, the typical gloaters after Jerusalem's fall (Obadiah; Lamentations 4:21). The verb pair 'fall…arise' (naphalti…qamti) anticipates the resurrection vocabulary of the New Testament (anistēmi, anastasis), and Patristic exegetes regularly read the verse as a prophetic utterance in the voice of the Messiah or of the church facing persecution. The verse became a favourite of Jewish communities in the Diaspora as an affirmation of perseverance against those who anticipated permanent defeat.
अन्य अनुवाद
Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, Jehovah will be a light unto me.
Thou dost not rejoice over me, O mine enemy, When I have fallen, I have risen, When I sit in darkness Jehovah is a light to me.
Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me.
क्रॉस संदर्भ
If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
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And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.
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