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Psalm 129 Bible in Basic English

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About BBE
  • Scholarly edition
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew (not verified)
  • NT: Critical text (not verified)
  • Protestant (66 books)
  • Simplified language
  • 1965
  • Public domain

Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings

Notes on this text (1)
BBE Bible in Basic English
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
1 A Song of the going up. Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say);
1 Cántico gradual. MUCHO me han angustiado desde mi juventud, puede decir ahora Israel;
2 Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young, but my troubles have not overcome me.
2 Mucho me han angustiado desde mi juventud; mas no prevalecieron contra mí.
3 The ploughmen were ploughing on my back; long were the wounds they made.
3 Sobre mis espaldas araron los aradores: hicieron largos surcos.
4 The Lord is true: the cords of the evil-doers are broken in two.
4 Jehová es justo; cortó las coyundas de los impíos.
5 Let all the haters of Zion be shamed and turned back.
5 Serán avergonzados y vueltos atrás todos los que aborrecen á Sión.
6 Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth.
6 Serán como la hierba de los tejados, que se seca antes que crezca:
7 He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.
7 De la cual no hinchió segador su mano, ni sus brazos el que hace gavillas.
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.
8 Ni dijeron los que pasaban: Bendición de Jehová sea sobre vosotros; os bendecimos en el nombre de Jehová.
Cross references (8)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Psalm 124:1; Jeremiah 2:2; Hosea 11:1; Psalm 127:1; Exodus 1:12–14
  2. 2 2 Corinthians 4:8–9; Revelation 12:8–9; Psalm 34:19; Matthew 16:18; Psalm 125:1
  3. 3 Isaiah 51:23; Psalm 141:7
  4. 4 Psalm 119:137; Lamentations 3:22; Psalm 124:6–7; Daniel 9:7; Nehemiah 9:33
  5. 5 Psalm 71:13; Isaiah 37:35; Zechariah 12:3; Isaiah 10:12; Isaiah 37:22
  6. 6 Psalm 37:2; Psalm 92:7; Jeremiah 17:5–6; Matthew 13:6; 2 Kings 19:26
  7. 7 Galatians 6:8; Isaiah 17:10–11; Psalm 126:6; Hosea 8:7
  8. 8 Ruth 2:4; Psalm 118:26

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“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).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm CXXVIII)

    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)