มีคาห์ 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.
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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.
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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.
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If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
I will sing unto the Lord, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; …
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I …
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate …
Judge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame …
The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.