Psalms 129:5
Confounded and turn backward do all hating Zion.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
In Context
4Jehovah [is] righteous, He hath cut asunder cords of the wicked.
6They are as grass of the roofs, That before it was drawn out withereth,
Cross References
Nehemiah 6:16and it cometh to pass, when all our enemies have heard, and all the nations who are round about us see, that they fall greatly in their own eyes, and know that by our God hath this work been done.
Esther 9:5And the Jews smite among all their enemies — a smiting of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction — and do with those hating them according to their pleasure,
Psalms 71:13They are ashamed, they are consumed, Who are opposing my soul, They are covered [with] reproach and blushing, Who are seeking my evil,
Psalms 122:6Ask ye the peace of Jerusalem, At rest are those loving thee.
Isaiah 29:8And it hath been, as when the hungry dreameth, And lo, he is eating, And he hath waked, and empty [is] his soul, And as when the thirsty dreameth, And lo, he is drinking, and he hath waked, And lo, he is weary, and his soul is longing, So is the multitude of all the nations Who are warring against mount Zion.
Isaiah 37:28And thy sitting down, and thy going out, And thy coming in, I have known, And thy anger towards Me.
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 →