Psalm 129

They Have Afflicted Me from My Youth

¹ "MANY a time they have _a afflicted ₁ me from _b my youth,"
_c Let Israel now say - ² "Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth;
Yet they have not prevailed against me. ³ The plowers plowed on my back;
They made their furrows long." ⁴ The LORD is righteous;
He has cut in pieces the cords of the wicked. ⁵ Let all those who hate Zion
Be put to shame and turned back. ⁶ Let them be as the _d grass on the housetops,
Which withers before it grows up, ⁷ With which the reaper does not fill his hand,
Nor he who binds sheaves, his ₂ arms. ⁸ Neither let those who pass by them say,
_e "The blessing of the LORD be upon you;
We bless you in the name of the LORD!"

1. Cross References
   Psalms 125:5
   As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, The LORD shall lead them away With the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel!
   
2. Cross References
   Jeremiah 1:19
   They will fight against you, But they shall not prevail against you. For I am with you," says the LORD, "to deliver you.
   Jeremiah 15:20
   And I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall; And they will fight against you, But they shall not prevail against you; For I am with you to save you And deliver you," says the LORD.
   Matthew 16:18
   And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
   2 Corinthians 4:8
   We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair.
   2 Corinthians 4:9
   Persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed -
   
3. Cross References
   Ezekiel 23:3
   They committed harlotry in Egypt, They committed harlotry in their youth; Their breasts were there embraced, Their virgin bosom was there pressed.
   Hosea 2:15
   I will give her her vineyards from there, And the Valley of Achor as a door of hope; She shall sing there, As in the days of her youth, As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.
   
4. Cross References
   Psalms 124:1
   IF it had not been the LORD who was on our side," Let Israel now say -
   
5. Cross References
   Psalms 37:2
   For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb.