_A.M. 2992. B.C. 1012._ In this Psalm the people of God commemorate, with thankfulness, their deliverance from sore afflictions, Psalms 129:1. They predict the destruction of their enemies, Psalms 129:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Many a time have they_ Namely, my enemies or oppressors; _afflicted me from my youth_ From the time that I was a people; when I was in Egypt, and after I came out of it, which is called the time of Israel's youth, Jeremiah 2:2; Ezekiel 23:3. I am the people that has been oppressed more than any peo... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 earth which he cuts at his pleasure. He saith, _upon my back_, either because they did literally sc... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 them be_, read, _They shall be as grass upon the house tops_ Which there were flat, and therefore mor... [ Continue Reading ]