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Psalm 129 Free Bible Version

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1 A song for pilgrims going up to Jerusalem. Many enemies have attacked from the time I was young. Let everyone in Israel say:
1 A Song of Ascents. Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say:
2 Many enemies have attacked from the time I was young, but they never defeated me.
2 many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.
3 They beat me on my back, leaving long furrows as if it had been plowed by a farmer.
3 The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.
4 But the Lord does what is right: he has cut me free from the ropes of the wicked.
4 Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
5 May everyone who hates Zion be driven back in humiliating defeat.
5 Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.
6 May they be like grass that grows on a roof that withers before it can be harvested,
6 Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
7 There's not enough even for a reaper to hold, not enough even for the binder to bind.
7 with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
8 May passers-by not say to them, “The blessing of the Lord be on you; we bless you in the name of the Lord.”
8 Neither do those who go by say, “The blessing of Yahweh be on you. We bless you in Yahweh’s name.”
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).

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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).

  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)