Psalms 129 ~ Listen and Read Along

Dramatized KJV
 JV McGee
This song is that of one who ascending toward the much desired place of rest and worship, looks back and sees how in the past God has delivered from sore perils. The backward look would seem to be inspired by consciousness of present peril, for immediately the song expresses desire for the judgment of The LORD against those who are described as hating Zion.

On the way to the city and temple those who hate the pilgrims of faith plot and scheme for their overthrow, and it is in the consciousness of this that the song celebrates past deliverances and seeks a continuance of them. While there is evidently a sense of danger in the mind of the singer, there is an utter absence of despair. It is the true attitude of those who have a rich experience of the faithfulness of God. In times of peril it is a good thing for the pilgrim to strengthen the heart by looking back and remembering past deliverances. Such an exercise will invariably create a present confidence.

The Treasury of David

 

They Have Afflicted Me from My Youth    

Psalms 129:1 A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
Psalms 129:2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
Psalms 129:3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
Psalms 129:4 The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
Psalms 129:5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
Psalms 129:6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
Psalms 129:7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
Psalms 129:8 Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
  
  
  
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