Psalms 129:1
Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that walk in his ways.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
In Context
2For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.
Cross References
Exodus 1:11Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens, and they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom and Ramesses.
Exodus 1:14And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay, and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth.
Exodus 5:7You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick, as before: but let them go and gather straw.
Judges 3:8And the Lord being angry with Israel, delivered them into the hands of Chusan Rasathaim king of Mesopotamia, and they served him eight years.
1 Samuel 13:19Now there was no smith to be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines had taken this precaution, lest the Hebrews should make them swords or spears.
Psalms 88:15Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy face from me?
Matthew Henry on Psalms 129:1
This psalm relates to the public concerns of God's Israel. It is not certain when it was penned, probably when they were in captivity in Babylon, or about the time of their return. I. They look back with thankfulness for the former deliverances God had wrought for them and their fathers out of the many distresses they had been in from time to time, ver. 1-4 . II. They look forward with a believing prayer for and a prospect of the destruction of all the enemies of Zion, ver. 5-8 . In singing this psalm we may apply… Read the whole commentary →