The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows. The stripes laid on Israel's back are compared to the furrows made by the plow. Compare the image, 1 Samuel 14:14. The antitypical Israel saith, "I gave my back to the smiters" (Isaiah 50:6). How just the retribution in kind, that as Israel caused her King to have His back plowed by the smiters, so "Zion" was, for Israel's sin, "plowed as a field" (Micah 3:12), under the Roman Titus.