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Verse Psalms 129:3. _THE PLOWERS PLOWED UPON MY BACK_] It is possible
that this mode of expression may signify that the people, during their
captivity, were cruelly used by _scourging_, c. or it may...
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THE PLOWERS PLOWED UPON MY BACK - The comparison here is undoubtedly
taken from the “plowing” of land, and the idea is that the
sufferings which they had endured were such as would be well
represented...
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PSALM 120-134
The Psalms of Degrees
Fifteen brief Psalms follow, called songs of degrees, or, ascents.
They were in all probability used by Israel going up to Jerusalem
three times a year to celebrat...
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CXXIX. PERSECUTED BUT NOT CAST DOWN.
Psalms 129:1. Israel's tyrants compared to ploughmen who have extended
their ploughing far, but Yahweh in His righteousness cut the cord
which fastened the ox to...
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THE PLOWERS. No Art....
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THE PLOUGHERS PLOUGHED, &C.— That is, "They reduced us to a state of
abject slavery, and used us most cruelly in it. _The ploughers
ploughed,_ &c. they scourged us so severely, that the marks remained...
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PSALMS 129
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
Israel's Thanks for Past Deliverances, and
Prayer for Continued Vindication.
ANALYSIS
Stanza I., Psalms 129:1-4, Israel's Experience of Vexation and
Deliverance. Stanza...
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A song of deliverance in trouble and the overthrow of the wicked....
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MADE LONG THEIR FURROWS] Descriptive of the persecutions Israel had
endured....
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Psalms 107:150
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
PSALMS 129
PSALMS FOR CLIMBING;
PSALMS 120:134
Jesus said, "We wi
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FURROWS. — The Hebrew word only occurs once besides, in 1 Samuel
14:14, where the margin renders as here, _furrow_ — a rendering
which plainly _there_ is not intelligible. “Half a furrow of an acre
of...
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עַל ־גַּ֭בִּי חָרְשׁ֣וּ חֹרְשִׁ֑ים
הֶ֝אֱרִ֗יכוּ _לְ_†_מַעֲנִיתָֽם_†׃
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Psalms 129:1
THE point of view here is the same as in Psalms 124:1, with which the
present psalm has much similarity both in subject and in expression.
It is a retrospect of Israel's past, in which th...
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This song is that of one who ascending toward the much desired place
of rest and worship, looks back and sees how in the past Jehovah has
delivered from sore perils. The backward look would seem to be...
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_Mark. Hebrew, "observe or keep." --- It. Hebrew, "who shall stand
upright, (Calmet) or make opposition." (Haydock) --- We all stand in
need of mercy, as none can stand before the rigours of divine ju...
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Surely here we find Christ most emphatically pointed out: Jesus, the
Prophet, described as giving his back to the smiters; and in the hall
of Pilate we know that Jesus was scourged. Isaiah 50:6; John...
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3._The ploughers have ploughed upon my back. _(110) Here the Prophet,
by an apparent similitude, embellishes his preceding statement
respecting the grievous afflictions of the Church. He compares the...
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Psalms 129 recurs now with joy to the sorrows and trials through which
the children of Zion have gone. But Jehovah is righteous, and has cut
asunder the cords of the wicked. The haters of Zion (for Zi...
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THE PLOUGHERS PLOUGHED UPON MY BACK,.... "Sinners", as the Septuagint,
Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions, render it; such that plough
iniquity, and sow wickedness, Job 4:8; which may be understood of...
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_The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows._
Ver. 3. _The plowers plowed upon my back_] Which was never without
some cross upon it, yea, some plough passing over it. The Church is...
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_The ploughers ploughed upon my back_ They not only threw me down and
trod me under foot, but cruelly wounded, mangled, and tormented me,
and had no more pity upon me than the plough-man hath upon the...
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The plowers plowed upon my back, a figure of scourging expressing the
most severe physical punishment; THEY MADE LONG THEIR FURROWS, with
relentless cruelty, for the picture is that of a strip of land...
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THE VICTORY OF THE CHURCH OVER HER ENEMIES.
A song of degrees, describing the deliverances of the people of God in
the past and therefore confidently asserting the overthrow of the
enemies in the fut...
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1-4 The enemies of God's people have very barbarously endeavoured to
wear out the saints of the Most High. But the church has been always
graciously delivered. Christ has built his church upon a rock....
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PLOUGHED UPON MY BACK; they have not only thrown me down, and trod me
under foot, but have cruelly tormented me, wounded and mangled me, and
had no more pity upon me than the ploughman hath upon the e...
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Psalms 129:3 plowers H2790 (H8802) plowed H2790 (H8804) back H1354
made H748 furrows H4618 (H8675)...
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Three Songs of degrees.
Psalms 129:1. _Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may
Israel now say: many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet
they have not prevailed against me._...
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CONTENTS: Prayer for destruction of all the enemies of Zion.
CHARACTERS: God, Israel.
CONCLUSION: God has many ways of disabling men to do their mischief
against His people and of bringing their cou...
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The only title of this psalm is, _a song of degrees._ The author is
unknown. It contains a general reference to the troubles of Israel,
and the overthrow of her enemies.
Psalms 129:1. _From my youth....
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_Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth._
THE PERSECUTED CONDITION OF GODLY MEN ON THIS EARTH
I. As suffering under the hand of wicked persecution. The persecution
here referred to was--...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 129:1. This psalm reflects on what
God’s people have endured and how God has sustained them. As a Song
of Solomon 1:1 of Asce
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INTRODUCTION
This Psalm was written after the Captivity, and contains a reference
to the many tribulations which the Jews passed through from their
youth—_i.e._, the earliest part of their history,—t...
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EXPOSITION
THIS psalm consists of a retrospect (Psalms 129:1) and an anticipation
(Psalms 129:5). The retrospect shows Israel oppressed by enemies for a
long term of years, but finally vindicated and...
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Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not
prevailed against me (Psalms 129:1-2).
So here is Israel, and...
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Isaiah 51:23; Psalms 141:7...