Psalms 129:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

PSALM 129 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm contains a joyful and thankful remembrance of the church's former and manifold calamities from barbarous enemies, and of God's wonderful mercy in delivering them out of their hands. The various manifold afflictions of the church described, but delivered out of all, Psalms 139:1-4. The haters thereof cursed, and devoted to judgment, Psalms 139:5-8. They; mine enemies or oppressors; which is easily understood, both from the nature of the thing, and from Psalms 129:3, where they are expressed under the name of ploughers. From my youth; from the time that I was a people, when I was in Egypt and came out of it, which is called the time of Israel's youth, Jeremiah 2:2 Ezekiel 23:3.