Psalms 129:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: Many a time have they afflicted me - The Israelites had been generally in affliction or captivity from the earliest part of their history, here called their youth. So Hosea 2:15 : "She shall sing as in the days of her youth, when she came up out of the land of Egypt." See Jeremiah 2:2, and Ezekiel 16:4, etc.