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Psalm 129 JPS Tanakh (1917)

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  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
  • Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)
  • Formal (word for word)
  • 1917
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Notes on this text (2)
JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 A Song of Ascents. 'Much have they afflicted me from my youth up', let Israel now say;
1 A Song of Ascents. Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say:
2 'Much have they afflicted me from my youth up; but they have not prevailed against me.
2 many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.
3 The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.
3 The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.
4 The LORD is righteous; He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.'
4 Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
5 Let them be ashamed and turned backward, all they that hate Zion.
5 Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.
6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it springeth up;
6 Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
7 Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand, nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
7 with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
8 Neither do they that go by say: 'The blessing of the LORD be upon 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).

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)