Psalm 129

Afflicted yet not overcome

Israel testifies that though afflicted many times from youth and plowed upon like a field, the righteous Lord has cut the cords of the wicked.

8 verses. The 129th of 150 chapters in Psalms, in Poetry and Wisdom.

1Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

2Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

3The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

4The Lord is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

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

6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

7Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

8Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the Lord be upon you: we bless you in the name of the Lord.

Matthew Henry on Psalm 129

1,639 words, in 2 passages.

  1. Verses 1–4Domestic Happiness.
  2. Verses 5–8God's Regard to His Church.

King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.

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