Psalms 129
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Thankfulness for former deliverances | ||
| «A Song of the going up.» Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say); | A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: | |
Verse 1 WEB A Song of Ascents. Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say, KJV A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: TSK A. M. 3470. B.C. 534. A Song of degrees: ezr 4:1-23, ps 120:1, ps 121:1, ps 122:1, ps 123:1, ps 124:1, ps 125:1, ps 126:1, ps 127:1, ps 128:1; have they: ex 1:12-14,22, ex 5:7-19, jud 2:15, jud 10:8-12, 1sa 13:19, la 1:3; from: jer 2:2, eze 23:3, ho 2:15, ho 11:1; may: ps 124:1 |
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| Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young, but my troubles have not overcome me. | Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me. | |
Verse 2 WEB many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me. KJV Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me. TSK yet they have: ps 34:19, ps 118:13, ps 125:1, job 5:19, mt 16:18, ro 8:35-39, joh 16:33, re 12:8,9 |
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| The ploughmen were ploughing on my back; long were the wounds they made. | The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows. | |
Verse 3 WEB The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long. KJV The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows. |
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| The Lord is true: the cords of the evil-doers are broken in two. | The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. | |
Verse 4 WEB Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked. KJV The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. TSK The Lord: ezr 9:15, ne 9:33, la 1:18, la 3:22, da 9:7; cut asunder: ps 124:6,7, ps 140:5-11 |
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A believing prospect of the destruction of the enemies of Zion | ||
| Let all the haters of Zion be shamed and turned back. | Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. | |
Verse 5 WEB Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion. KJV Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. TSK be confounded: ps 83:4-11, ps 122:6, es 6:13, es 9:5, isa 10:12, isa 37:22,28,29,35, zec 1:14-17, zec 12:3,6, 1co 16:22 |
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| Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth. | Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: | |
Verse 6 WEB Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up; KJV Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: TSK as the grass: ps 37:2, ps 92:7, jer 17:5,6, mt 13:6 |
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| He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems. | Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom. | |
Verse 7 WEB with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom. KJV Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom. TSK he that bindeth: ps 126:6, isa 17:10,11, ho 8:7, ga 6:8 |
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| And those who go by do not say, The blessing of the Lord be on you; we give you blessing in the name of the Lord. | Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD. | |
Verse 8 WEB Neither do those who go by say, “The blessing of Yahweh be on you. We bless you in the name of Yahweh.” KJV Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD. |
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