2nd Corinthians Chapter 4 verse 9 Holy Bible
pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed;
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We are cruelly attacked, but not without hope; we are made low, but we are not without help;
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persecuted, but not abandoned; cast down, but not destroyed;
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Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
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pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;
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persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
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2nd Corinthians 4 : 9 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - Not forsaken. St. Paul, like the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, knew by blessed experience the truth of the promise, "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee" (Hebrews 13:5, 6). Cast down. Flung to the ground, as in some lost battle; yet not doomed, not "perishing." "Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down, for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand" (Psalm 37:24).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) Persecuted, but not forsaken.--Better, perhaps, as expressing in both terms of the clause the condition of a soldier on the field of battle, pursued, yet not abandoned. The next clause is again distinctly military, or, perhaps, agonistic: stricken down (as the soldier by some dart or javelin), yet not perishing. In the "faint, yet pursuing," of Judges 8:4, we have an antithesis of the same kind in a narrative of actual warfare.
