Psalms 129:3
Upon my back have ploughmen ploughed; they have drawn long their furrows:
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
In Context
2Many a time have they assailed me from my youth: yet have they not prevailed against me.
4[Yet] the Lord is righteous; he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
Cross References
Job 39:10Canst thou bind the forest-ox with a rope [to labor] in the furrow? or will he harrow valleys, following after thee?
Isaiah 50:6My back I gave up to the smiters, and my cheeks to those that plucked off the hair: my face I hid not from abuse and spitting.
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 →