the Second Week after Easter
Click here to join the effort!
Read the Bible
Good News Translation
Psalms 129:1
Bible Study Resources
Concordances:
- Nave'sDictionaries:
- Hastings'Parallel Translations
Since my youth they have often attacked me—let Israel say—
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
A Song of Ascents.
"Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth"— let Israel now say—A song for going up to worship.
They have treated me badly all my life. (Let Israel repeat this.)A song of ascents.
"Since my youth they have often attacked me," let Israel say."Many times they have persecuted me (Israel) from my youth," Let Israel now say,
"Many times they have attacked me from my youth up," Let Israel say,
A song of degrees. They haue often times afflicted me from my youth (may Israel nowe say)
"Many times they have assailed me from my youth up,"Let Israel now say,
A Song of Ascents. Many a time they have persecuted me from my youth-let Israel now declare-
(A song for worship.)
Since the time I was young, enemies have often attacked! Let everyone in Israel say:A song of ascents: Since I was young they have often attacked me — let Isra'el repeat it —
A Song of degrees.
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth—oh let Israel say—A song for going up to the Temple.
All my life enemies have attacked me. Say it again, Israel.MY oppressors have been many from my youth, may Israel now say;
A song of ascents.
"Too often they have attacked me from my youth." Let Israel say,A Song of Ascents. Many times they have distressed me from my youth, let Israel now say;
Many a tyme haue they fought agaynst me fro my youth vp (maye Israel now saie).
A Song of Ascents.
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up, Let Israel now say,Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say);
A Song of Ascents.
[A song of degrees.] Many a time haue they afflicted me from my youth: may Israel now say.
Israel may now say: they haue troubled me often from my youth vp.
Many a time have they warred against me from my youth, let Israel now say:
A Song of Ascents. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up, let Israel now say;
The `title of the hundrid and eiyte and twentithe `salm. The song of greces. Israel seie now; Ofte thei fouyten ayens me fro my yongth.
A Song of Ascents. Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth up, Let Israel now say,
A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
"Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth," Let Israel now say--
A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem.
From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me. Let all Israel repeat this:"They have made it hard for me many times since I was young," let Israel now say.
A Song of Ascents.
"Often have they attacked me from my youth" —let Israel now say—Many a time, have they harassed me from my youth, well may Israel say:
(128-1) <A gradual canticle.> Often have they fought against me from my youth, let Israel now say.
A Song of Ascents. "Sorely have they afflicted me from my youth," let Israel now say--
A Song of the Ascents. Often they distressed me from my youth, Pray, let Israel say:
A Pilgrim Song "They've kicked me around ever since I was young" —this is how Israel tells it— "They've kicked me around ever since I was young, but they never could keep me down. Their plowmen plowed long furrows up and down my back; Then God ripped the harnesses of the evil plowmen to shreds."
A Song of Ascents.
"Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up," Let Israel now say,Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Many: or, Much.
have they: Exodus 1:12-14, Exodus 1:22, Exodus 5:7-19, Judges 2:15, Judges 10:8-12, 1 Samuel 13:19, Lamentations 1:3
from: Jeremiah 2:2, Ezekiel 23:3, Hosea 2:15, Hosea 11:1
may: Psalms 124:1
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 19:7 - all the evil Psalms 66:12 - caused Isaiah 54:11 - thou afflicted Jeremiah 15:20 - but Acts 7:19 - General
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth,.... That is, the enemies of Israel, afterwards called "ploughers". This may be understood of literal Israel, the posterity of Jacob; whose youth was the beginning of their constitution as a nation and church, or the first times of it; when they were greatly distressed by their enemies, and from thenceforward; as in Egypt, where, and in places near it, they were afflicted four hundred years, according to a prophecy given to Abraham their ancestor, and where their lives were made bitter with hard bondage; and in the times of the Judges, by several neighbouring nations, which was the time of their youth, or their settlement in Canaan; and afterwards in the times of their kings, particularly in the times of Ahaz king of Judah, by the Edomites and Philistines, and by Tiglathpileser, king of Assyria; and in the times of Hoshea, king of Israel, by Salmaneser, who carried away captive, ten tribes; and in the times of Jeconiah and Zedekiah, kings of Judah, by Nebuchadnezzar, who carried captive to Babylon the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. And the psalmist, by a spirit of prophecy, might have a further respect to the distresses of Israel in the times of Antiochus and the Maccabees, when the temple was profaned, the altar demolished, and the daily sacrifice made to cease, and many good men lost their lives; to which times the apostle may be thought to have regard, Hebrews 11:35; and also to their last affliction by the Romans, the greatest of all; and their present captivity, and deliverance from it;
may Israel now say; this now refers to the time of redemption, as Arama observes, whether at their return from Babylon, or at their future conversion; then reviewing their former troubles ever since they were a people, may say as before. This may be applied to mystical Israel, or to the church of God in Gospel times, which, in its infancy, and from its youth upwards, has been afflicted, many a time, and by many enemies; first, by the unbelieving Jews, who killed the Lord Jesus, and persecuted his apostles and members; then by Rome Pagan, under the ten persecutions of so many emperors; and afterwards by Rome Papal, the whore of Babylon, who many a time been drunk with the blood of the saints and martyrs of Jesus. Yea, this may be applied to the Messiah, one of whose names is Israel, Isaiah 49:3; who was a man of sorrows, and acquainted with griefs all his days, even from his youth,
Isaiah 53:3; he was the "Aijeleth Shahar", the hind of the morning,
Psalms 22:1, title; hunted by Herod in his infancy, Matthew 2:13; and obliged to be carried into Egypt for safety when a child, from whence he was called, Hosea 11:1; and ever after was more or less afflicted by his enemies, men or devils, in mind or body; and at last endured great sufferings, and death itself. It may moreover be applied to every Israelite indeed, to every true believer and member of Christ; conversion is their time of youth; they are first newborn babes, and then young men; as soon as regenerated, they are afflicted with the temptations of Satan, the reproaches and persecutions of men; which are many, though no more than necessary, and it is the will of God should be, and all for their good.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Many a time - Margin, as in Hebrew, âmuch.â Probably, however, the idea is, as expressed in our translation, âmany a time;â âoften.â So it is in the Latin Vulgate and the Septuagint; and this accords better with the connection.
Have they afflicted me from my youth - Have I been afflicted; have others dealt unjustly by me. The youth here is the beginning. of the history of that people: since we began to be a people; since the nation was founded.
May Israel now say - May the nation now say. It is clear from this that the psalm was not written at an early period of their history.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
PSALM CXXIX
The Jews give an account of the afflictions which they have
passed through, 1-3.
And thank God for their deliverance, 4.
The judgments that shall fall on the workers of iniquity, 5-8.
NOTES ON PSALM CXXIX
This Psalm was written after the captivity; and contains a reference to the many tribulations which the Jews passed through from their youth, i.e., the earliest part of their history, their bondage in Egypt. It has no title in any of the Versions, nor in the Hebrew text, except the general one of A Psalm of Degrees. The author is uncertain.
Verse Psalms 129:1. 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, &c.
