“ Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. ”
Let them all be confounded and turned back ... - This might be rendered in the indicative, “they are ashamed,” but the connection seems to require the rendering in our version. It is a prayer tha...
CXXIX. Persecuted but not Cast Down. Psalms 129:1-4 . Israel's tyrants compared to ploughmen who have extended their ploughing far, but Yahweh in His righteousness cut the cord which fastened the...
Zion. See App-68.
5. All who hate Zion shall be confounded, and tutored backward. Whether we take this as a prayer or a promise, the Prophet has a respect to the time to come. Since all the verbs are in the f...
Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. Let them all be confounded - They shall be confounded. They who hate Zion, the Church of God, hate God himself; and all such must be dealt w...
Let them— Or, They shall. And so in the next verse, the last clause of which may be rendered, Which withereth before it be plucked up. Mr. Maundrell, on his way from Tripoli to Aleppo, observed...
Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion - ( Psalms 35:4 .) Faith anticipates future triumphs over the enemy from t...
A song of deliverance in trouble and the overthrow of the wicked.
Psalms 129:1-8 THE point of view here is the same as in Psalms 124:1-8 , with which the present psalm has much similarity both in subject and in expression. It is a retrospect of Israel's past, i...
This song is that of one who ascending toward the much desired place of rest and worship, looks back and sees how in the past Jehovah has delivered from sore perils. The backward look would seem to b...
These expressions are delivered in the. Spirit of prophecy; as if The sacred Writer had said, such will be the sure consequence of all Zion's foes; they must perish forever. And to which every true f...
Let them all be confounded ,.... Or "ashamed": as all the enemies of God's people will be sooner or later, either in this world, or however when Christ shall come in the clouds of heaven; or let the...
Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. Ver. 5. Let them all be confounded, &c. ] And if those that hate Zion, how much more those that hurt her with their virulent tongues...
Let them all be confounded , &c. Hebrew, יבשׁו ויסגו אחור, they shall all be confounded, and turned back Forced to retreat with shame and disappointment. And so in the next verse, instead of...
God's Regard to His Church. 5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. 6 Let them be as the grass...
Forced to retreat with shame and disappointment.
INTRODUCTION This Psalm was written after the Captivity, and contains a reference to the many tribulations which the Jews passed through from their youth— i.e. , the earliest part of their history,—...
Three Songs of degrees. Psalms 129:1-19 . Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed agains...
The only title of this psalm is, a song of degrees. The author is unknown. It contains a general reference to the troubles of Israel, and the overthrow of her enemies. Psalms 129:1 . From my you...
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth. The persecuted condition of godly men on this earth I. As suffering under the hand of wicked persecution. The persecution here referred to was-...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm consists of a retrospect ( Psalms 129:1-19 ) and an anticipation ( Psalms 129:5-19 ). The retrospect shows Israel oppressed by enemies for a long term of years, but final...
The Victory of the Church over Her Enemies. A song of degrees, describing the deliverances of the people of God in the past and therefore confidently asserting the overthrow of the enemies in the...
1 Corinthians 16:22 ; Esther 6:13 ; Esther 9:5 ; Isaiah 10:12 ; Isaiah 37:22 ; Isaiah 37:28 ; Isaiah 37:29 ; Isaiah 37:35 ; Psalms 83:4-1 ; Zechariah 1:14-17 ; Zechariah 12:3 ; Zechariah...