Psalms 129
Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up.
Fifth Book of the Psalms1
Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up.Let Israel now say,
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many times they have afflicted me from my youth up,yet they have not prevailed against me.
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The plowers plowed on my back.They made their furrows long.
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The LORD is righteous.He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
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Let them be disappointed and turned backward,all those who hate Zion.
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Let them be as the grass on the housetops,which withers before it grows up;
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with which the reaper doesn't fill his hand,nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
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Neither do those who go by say,"The blessing of the LORD be on you.We bless you in The LORD's name."
Ps 129:1-8. The people of God, often delivered from enemies, are confident of His favor, by their overthrow in the future.
1, 2. may Israel now say--or, "oh! let Israel say" (Ps 124:1). Israel's youth was the sojourn in Egypt (Jer 2:2; Ho 2:15).