Psa 124:1-3, 129:1-2, Jer 20:11-12, Rom 8:31-39 | ESV | STEP | A Song of Ascents . Of David . If it had not been the Lord who was on our side— let Israel now say

1 ^bIf it had not been the Lord who was on our side—
^clet Israel now say—
2 if it had not been the Lord who was on our side
when people rose up against us,
3 then they would have ^dswallowed us up alive,
when their anger was kindled against us;

Psalms 129:1-2

They Have Afflicted Me from My Youth

A Song of ^eAscents.

1 “Greatly ^{▼▼Or Often; also verse 2} have they ^gafflicted me ^hfrom my youth”—
ⁱlet Israel now say—
2 “Greatly have they ^jafflicted me ^kfrom my youth,
^lyet they have not prevailed against me.

Jeremiah 20:11-12

11 But ^mthe Lord is with me as a dread warrior;
therefore my persecutors will stumble;
ⁿthey will not overcome me.
^oThey will be greatly shamed,
for they will not succeed.
Their ^peternal dishonor
will never be forgotten.
12 O Lord of hosts, who tests the righteous,
^qwho sees the heart and the mind, ^{▼▼Hebrew kidneys}
let me see your vengeance upon them,
for to you have I committed my cause.

Romans 8:31-39

God’s Everlasting Love

31 What then shall we say to these things? ^sIf God is for us, who can be ^{▼▼Or who is} against us? 32 ^uHe who did not spare his own Son but ^vgave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? ^wIt is God who justifies. 34 ^xWho is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised— ^ywho is at the right hand of God, ^zwho indeed is interceding for us. ^{▼▼Or Is it Christ Jesus who died . . . for us?} 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written,

^ab“For your sake ^acwe are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these things we are more than ^adconquerors through ^aehim who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Psalms 124:1-3

Our Help Is in the Name of the Lord

A Song of aAscents. Of David.