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Psalms 129
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Psalms129

They Have Afflicted Me from My Youth
A Song of 129:0 [See Ps. 120, title]Ascents.

1“Greatly129:1 Or Often; also verse 2 have they 129:1 [Ex. 1:14; Judg. 3:8, 14; 4:3; 6:2; 10:8] afflicted me 129:1 Isa. 47:12; Jer. 2:2; 22:21; Hos. 2:15from my youth”—
129:1 Ps. 124:1let Israel now say—
2“Greatly have they 129:2 [See ver. 1above] afflicted me 129:2 [See ver. 1above] from my youth,
129:2 [2 Cor. 4:8-10]yet they have not prevailed against me.
3129:3 Mic. 3:12The plowers plowed 129:3 [Isa. 50:6; 51:23]upon my back;
they made long their furrows.”
4The Lord is righteous;
he has cut 129:4 Ps. 2:3the cords of the wicked.
5May all who hate Zion
be 129:5 See Ps. 35:4put to shame and turned backward!
6Let them be like 129:6 2 Kgs. 19:26; Isa. 37:27the grass on the housetops,
which 129:6 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,
129:8 Ruth 2:4“The blessing of the Lord be upon you!
We 129:8 Ps. 118:26bless you in the name of the Lord!”