The stone that the builders rejected
has become the chief cornerstone.
This is the Lord’s doing;
it is marvellous in our eyes.
This is the day that the Lord has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Save us, we beseech you, O Lord!
O Lord, we beseech you, give us success!
God can transform insufficiency and failure.
The transformation may not, however, always seem to us a "success".
The Hebrew translated as success is צָלַח or tsalach, meaning to advance quickly, progress, or rush.
The original meaning - still used sometimes - for success is to come after or come near to (as to succeed in office).
We are called to follow God, to come near to God: this is success.
Psalm 118
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