Psalms 129:2
O Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
In Context
1A Canticle in steps. From the depths, I have cried out to you, O Lord.
3If you, O Lord, were to heed iniquities, who, O Lord, could persevere?
Cross References
Job 5:19He will deliver you into six tribulations, and in the seventh, evil will not touch you.
Psalms 42:1A Psalm of David. Judge me, O God, and discern my cause from that of a nation not holy; rescue me from a man unjust and deceitful.
Psalms 125:1A Canticle in steps. When the Lord turned back the captivity of Zion, we became like those who are consoled.
John 16:33These things I have spoken to you, so that you may have peace in me. In the world, you will have difficulties. But have confidence: I have overcome the world.”
2 Corinthians 4:8In all things, we endure tribulation, yet we are not in anguish. We are constrained, yet we are not destitute.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 129:2-5
Domestic Happiness. 1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: 2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me. 3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows. 4 The Lord is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. The church of God, in its several ages, is here spoken of, or, rather, here speaks, as one single person, now old and gray-headed, but calling to remembrance the former days, and reflecting upon the… Read the whole commentary →