The plowers. No Art.
The plowers plowed upon my back - The comparison here is undoubtedly taken from the “plowing” of land, and the idea is that the sufferings which...
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...
3. The ploughers have ploughed upon my back. (110) Here the Prophet, by an apparent similitude, embellishes his preceding statement respect...
The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows. The plowers plowed upon my back - It is possible that this mode of expression may sign...
The ploughers ploughed, &c.— That is, "They reduced us to a state of abject slavery, and used us most cruelly in it. The ploughers ploughed,...
The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows. The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows. The stripes lai...
A song of deliverance in trouble and the overthrow of the wicked.
Made long their furrows ] Descriptive of the persecutions Israel had endured.
Furrows. — The Hebrew word only occurs once besides, in 1 Samuel 14:14 , where the margin renders as here, furrow — a rendering which plainly t...
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...
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 f...
Surely here we find Christ most emphatically pointed out: Jesus, the Prophet, described as giving his back to the smiters; and in the hall of Pilate...
The ploughers ploughed upon my back ,.... "Sinners", as the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions, render it; such that plough iniquity, an...
The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows. Ver. 3. The plowers plowed upon my back ] Which was never without some cross upon...
The ploughers ploughed upon my back They not only threw me down and trod me under foot, but cruelly wounded, mangled, and tormented me, and had no...
Domestic Happiness. A song of degrees. 1 Many a time have they aff...
Ploughed upon my back; they have not only thrown me down, and trod me under foot, but have cruelly tormented me, wounded and mangled me, and had no...
INTRODUCTION This Psalm was written after the Captivity, and contains a reference to the many tribulations which the Jews passed through from their...
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...
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 overt...
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...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm consists of a retrospect ( Psalms 129:1-19 ) and an anticipation ( Psalms 129:5-19 ). The retrospect shows Israel oppres...
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 confiden...
The plowers plowed upon my back, a figure of scourging expressing the most severe physical punishment; they made long their furrows, with relentles...
Isaiah 51:23 ; Psalms 141:7
3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.