A Song of the Ascents. Often they distressed me from my youth, Pray, let Israel say:Psalm 129:1 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleMany a time have they afflicted me - The Israelites had been generally in affliction or captivity from the earliest part of their history, here called their youth. So Hosea 2:15 : "She shall sing as in the days of her youth, when she came up out of the land of Egypt." See Jeremiah 2:2, and Ezekiel 16:4, etc.
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3470. B.C.
534. A song of degrees. This Psalm was most probably composed in consequence of the opposition of the Samaritans.
Ezra 4:1 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity built the temple to the LORD God of Israel;
Psalm 120:1 In my distress I cried to the LORD, and he heard me.
Psalm 121:1 I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from where comes my help.
Psalm 122:1 I was glad when they said to me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
Psalm 123:1 To you lift I up my eyes, O you that dwell in the heavens.
Psalm 124:1 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;
Psalm 125:1 They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but stays for ever.
Psalm 126:1 When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
Psalm 127:1 Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman wakes but in vain.
Psalm 128:1 Blessed is every one that fears the LORD; that walks in his ways.
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Exodus 1:12-14,22 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel...
Exodus 5:7-19 You shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves...
Judges 2:15 Wherever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn to them...
Judges 10:8-12 And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years...
1 Samuel 13:19 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
Lamentations 1:3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwells among the heathen, she finds no rest...
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Jeremiah 2:2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said the LORD; I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your espousals...
Ezekiel 23:3 And they committed prostitutions in Egypt; they committed prostitutions in their youth: there were their breasts pressed...
Hosea 2:15 And I will give her her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there...
Hosea 11:1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
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Psalm 124:1 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;
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