They Have Afflicted Me from My Youth

Psalm 129

A Song of Ascents.

1
"Greatly 1 have they p afflicted me q from my youth" -
r let Israel now say -
2 "Greatly have they p afflicted me q from my youth,
s yet they have not prevailed against me.
 3 t The plowers plowed u upon my back;
they made long their furrows."
 4 The Lord is righteous;
he has cut v the cords of the wicked.
 5 May all who hate Zion
be w put to shame and turned backward!
 6 Let them be like x the grass on the housetops,
which y withers before it grows up,
 7 with which the reaper does not fill his hand
nor the binder of sheaves his arms,
 8 nor do those who pass by say,
a "The blessing of the Lord be upon you!
We b bless you in the name of the Lord!"

  1. Cross References
    Psalms 120:1
    In my distress I called to the Lord, and he answered me.
  2. Cross References
    Exodus 1:14
    And made their lives bitter with hard service, ...
    Judges 3:8
    Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled aga...
    Judges 3:14
    And the people of Israel served Eglon the king ...
    Judges 4:3
    Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord...
    Judges 6:2
    And the hand of Midian overpowered Israel, and ...
    Judges 10:8
    And they crushed and oppressed the people of Is...
  3. Cross References
    Isaiah 47:12
    Stand fast in your enchantments and your many sorceries, with which you have labored from your youth; perhaps you may be able to succeed; perhaps you may inspire terror.
    Jeremiah 2:2
    Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord, "I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
    Jeremiah 22:21
    I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, 'I will not listen.' This has been your way from your youth, that you have not obeyed my voice.
    Hosea 2:15
    And there I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.
  4. Cross References
    Psalms 124:1
    If it had not been the Lord who was on our side - let Israel now say -
  5. Cross References
    Psalms 129:1
    Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth" - let Israel now say -
  6. Cross References
    Psalms 129:1
    Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth" - let Israel now say -
  7. Cross References
    2 Corinthians 4:8 - 10
    We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair.
  8. Cross References
    Micah 3:12
    Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.
  9. Cross References
    Isaiah 50:6
    I gave my back to those who strike, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard; I hid not my face from disgrace and spitting.
    Isaiah 51:23
    And I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, who have said to you, 'Bow down, that we may pass over'; and you have made your back like the ground and like the street for them to pass over.
  10. Cross References
    Psalms 2:3
    "Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us."
  11. Cross References
    Psalms 35:4
    Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek after my life! Let them be turned back and disappointed who devise evil against me!
  12. Cross References
    2 Kings 19:26
    While their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops, blighted before it is grown.
    Isaiah 37:27
    While their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops, blighted before it is grown.
  13. Cross References
    Psalms 37:2
    For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.
    Job 8:12
    While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.
  14. Cross References
    Ruth 2:4
    And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem. And he said to the reapers, "The Lord be with you!" And they answered, "The Lord bless you.
  15. Cross References
    Psalms 118:26
    Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! We bless you from the house of the Lord.
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