Psalms 129:2
What meaning of the psalms 129:2 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 129:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me."
What does Psalms 129:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me."
Verse Psalms 129:2. _YET THEY HAVE NOT PREVAILED_] They endeavoured to annihilate us as a people; but God still preserves us as his own nation....
MANY A TIME ... - This repetition is designed to fix the thoughts on the fact, and to impress it on the mind. The mind dwells on the fact as important in its bearing on the present occasion or emergen...
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 celebra...
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...
MANY. TIME. Figure of speech _Anaphora_ (App-6), being repeated from Psalms 129:1. YET. Nevertheless. Hebrew. _gam,_ as in Psalms 119:24 ("also"); Ezekiel 16:28; Ecclesiastes 6:7. Not "reduplicated b...
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. Stanz...
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me. MANY A TIME HAVE THEY AFFLICTED ME FROM MY YOUTH; YET THEY HAVE NOT PREVAILED AGAINST ME. The repetition c...
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 WILL GO UP TO JERUSALEM" (LUKE 18:31). THE STORY OF PSALMS 120:134 These 15 psalms are called...
רַ֭בַּת צְרָר֣וּנִי מִ נְּעוּרָ֑י גַּ֝ם לֹא ־יָ֥כְלוּ לִֽי׃...
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...
It is beautiful to observe how the Scriptures sometimes speak of the church, and sometimes of Christ the head of the church, as one and the same. Hence the church is sometimes called by Christ's name;...
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...
MANY A TIME HAVE THEY AFFLICTED ME FROM MY YOUTH,.... This is repeated for the confirmation of it, to excite attention to it, and to express the vehement affection of the speaker; YET THEY HAVE NOT P...
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me. Ver. 2. _Many a time, &c._] _Anadiplosis ad exaggerationem,_ _q.d._ They have done it and done it again, but...
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...
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....
No text from Poole on this verse....
Psalms 129:2 time H7227 afflicted H6887 (H8804) youth H5271 prevailed H3201 (H8804) yet they have - Psalms 34:19, Psalms 118:13, Psalms 125:1; Job 5:19; Matthew 16:18;...
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--...
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 Ascents, it reminds the pilgrims never to take their...
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...
Job 5:19; John 16:33; Matthew 16:18; Psalms 118:13; Psalms 125:1; Psalms 34:19; Revelation 12:8; Revelation 12:9; Romans 8:35...