Psalms 129
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Psalm 129
A song for going up to worship.
1“From the time I was young, people have attacked me …”
(Israel should repeat this.)
2“From the time I was young, people have attacked me,
but they have never overpowered me.
3They have plowed my back ⌞like farmers plow fields⌟.
They made long slashes ⌞like furrows⌟.”
4The Lord is righteous.
He has cut me loose
from the ropes that wicked people tied around me.
5Put to shame all those who hate Zion.
Force them to retreat.
6Make them be like grass on a roof,
like grass that dries up before it produces a stalk.
7It will never fill the barns of those who harvest
or the arms of those who gather bundles.
8Those who pass by will never say ⌞to them⌟,
“May you be blessed by the Lord”
or “We bless you in the name of the Lord.”
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Psalm 129
129
They Have Afflicted Me from My Youth
A Song of #[See Ps. 120, title]Ascents.
1“Greatly#129:1 Or Often; also verse 2 have they #[Ex. 1:14; Judg. 3:8, 14; 4:3; 6:2; 10:8] afflicted me #Isa. 47:12; Jer. 2:2; 22:21; Hos. 2:15 from my youth”—
#
Ps. 124:1
let Israel now say—
2“Greatly have they #[See ver. 1 above] afflicted me #[See ver. 1 above] from my youth,
# [2 Cor. 4:8-10] yet they have not prevailed against me.
3 #
Mic. 3:12 The plowers plowed #[Isa. 50:6; 51:23]upon my back;
they made long their furrows.”
4The Lord is righteous;
he has cut #Ps. 2:3the cords of the wicked.
5May all who hate Zion
be #See Ps. 35:4put to shame and turned backward!
6Let them be like #2 Kgs. 19:26; Isa. 37:27 the grass on the housetops,
which #Ps. 37:2; Job 8:12withers before it grows up,
7with which the reaper does not fill his hand
nor the binder of sheaves his arms,
8nor do those who pass by say,
#
Ruth 2:4 “The blessing of the Lord be upon you!
We #Ps. 118:26bless you in the name of the Lord!”
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