1 A Song of degrees.
MANY a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
4 The Lord is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
8 Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the Lord be upon you: we bless you in the name of the Lord.

1A song of degrees. Many a time haue they afflicted me from my youth: may Israel now say.

2Many a time haue they afflicted me from my youth: yet they haue not preuailed against mee.

3The plowers plowed vpon my backe: they made long their furrowes.

4The Lord is righteous: hee hath cut asunder the cordes of the wicked.

5Let them all be confounded and turned backe, that hate Zion.

6Let them bee as the grasse vpon the house tops: which withereth afore it groweth vp:

7Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand: nor hee that bindeth sheaues, his bosome.

8Neither doe they which goe by, say, The blessing of the Lord be vpon you: wee blesse you in the Name of the Lord.

I == Ps 124:1 ; Ezek 23:3 ; Hos 2:15 ; 11:1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VI == Ps 37:2

 

VIII == Ruth 2:4 ; Ps 118:26

1 Viciously have they attacked me from my youth, let Israel say now.

2 Viciously have they attacked me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.

3 Upon my back the plowers plowed, as they traced their long furrows.

4But the just LORD cut me free from the ropes of the wicked.

5 May they recoil in disgrace, all who hate Zion.

6 May they be like grass on the rooftops withered in early growth,

7 Never to fill the reaper’s hands, nor the arms of the binders of sheaves,

8 And with none passing by to call out: “The blessing of the LORD be upon you! We bless you in the name of the LORD!”

PSALM 129 GENERATION AFTER GENERATION OF HER ENEMIONS HAD OFFLICTED ISRAEL AND THIS WAS A PORAYRE FOR THEIR OVERTHROW.

v 1-4 Testimony of the Lord’s deliverance from persecutors is encouraged.

v 5-8 He prays for punishment on those who hate Zion; urges not to bless them.