Verse Psalms 129:5. _LET THEM ALL BE CONFOUNDED_] They shall be confounded. They who _hate Zion_, the Church of God, hate God himself; and all such must be dealt with as _enemies_, and be utterly _con...
LET THEM ALL BE CONFOUNDED AND TURNED BACK ... - This might be rendered in the indicative, “they are ashamed,” but the connection seems to require the rendering in our version. It is a prayer that God...
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...
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...
ZION. See App-68....
LET THEM— Or, _They shall._ And so in the next verse, the last clause of which may be rendered, _Which withereth before it be plucked up._ Mr. Maundrell, on his way from Tripoli to Aleppo, observed a...
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...
Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. LET THEM ALL BE CONFOUNDED AND TURNED BACK THAT HATE ZION - (.) Faith anticipates future triumphs over the enemy from those vouch-safed in...
A song of deliverance in trouble and the overthrow of the wicked....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ PSALMS 129 PSALMS FOR CLIMBING; PSALMS 120:134 Jesus said, "We wi
יֵ֭בֹשׁוּ וְ יִסֹּ֣גוּ אָחֹ֑ור כֹּ֝֗ל שֹׂנְאֵ֥י...
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...
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...
_Word. And promises that the captivity should end, (Calmet) and sin be remitted. (Haydock)_...
These expressions are delivered in the. Spirit of prophecy; as if The sacred Writer had said, such will be the sure consequence of all Zion's foes; they must perish forever. And to which every true fo...
5._All who hate Zion shall be confounded, and tutored backward. _Whether we take this as a prayer or a promise, the Prophet has a respect to the time to come. Since all the verbs are in the future ten...
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...
LET THEM ALL BE CONFOUNDED,.... Or "ashamed": as all the enemies of God's people will be sooner or later, either in this world, or however when Christ shall come in the clouds of heaven; or let them b...
Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. Ver. 5. _Let them all be confounded, &c._] And if those that hate Zion, how much more those that hurt her with their virulent tongues or vio...
_Let them all be confounded_, &c. Hebrew, יבשׁו ויסגו אחור, _they shall all be confounded, and turned back_ Forced to retreat with shame and disappointment. And so in the next verse, instead of _Let t...
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...
Let them all be confounded, covered with shame and disgrace, AND TURNED BACK, hindered from accomplishing their wicked designs, THAT HATE ZION (the members of the spiritual Israel), who attempt to hin...
5-8 While God's people shall flourish as the loaded palm-tree, or the green and fruitful olive, their enemies shall wither as the grass upon the house-tops, which in eastern countries are flat, and wh...
Forced to retreat with shame and disappointment....
Psalms 129:5 hate H8130 (H8802) Zion H6726 shame H954 (H8799) turned H5472 (H8735) back H268 be conf
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._...
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...
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....
_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--...
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...
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 16:22; Esther 6:13; Esther 9:5; Isaiah 10:12; Isaiah