1 A Song of the going up. Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say); 2 Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young, but my troubles have not overcome me. 3 The ploughmen were ploughing on my back; long were the wounds they made. 4 The Lord is true: the cords of the evil-doers are broken in two. 5 Let all the haters of Zion be shamed and turned back. 6 Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth. 7 He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems. 8 And those who go by do not say, The blessing of the Lord be on you; we give you blessing in the name of the Lord.
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Psalm 129 Bible in Basic English
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Cross references (8)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 124:1; Jeremiah 2:2; Hosea 11:1; Psalm 127:1; Exodus 1:12–14
- 2 2 Corinthians 4:8–9; Revelation 12:8–9; Psalm 34:19; Matthew 16:18; Psalm 125:1
- 3 Isaiah 51:23; Psalm 141:7
- 4 Psalm 119:137; Lamentations 3:22; Psalm 124:6–7; Daniel 9:7; Nehemiah 9:33
- 5 Psalm 71:13; Isaiah 37:35; Zechariah 12:3; Isaiah 10:12; Isaiah 37:22
- 6 Psalm 37:2; Psalm 92:7; Jeremiah 17:5–6; Matthew 13:6; 2 Kings 19:26
- 7 Galatians 6:8; Isaiah 17:10–11; Psalm 126:6; Hosea 8:7
- 8 Ruth 2:4; Psalm 118:26
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Felix the Martyr, truly Felix, i.e. "Happy" both in his name and his crown, whose birthday this is, despised the world. Was he, because he feared the Lord, thence happy, thence blessed, because his wife was as a fruitful vine upon the earth, and his children stood around his table?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)