Psalms 129:5

Psalms 129:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
• New International Version (NIV)May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame.
• English Standard Version (ESV)May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward!
• New King James Version (NKJV)Let all those who hate Zion Be put to shame and turned back.

Context of Psalms 129:5

3The [enemies, like] plowers plowed on my back; They made their furrows [of suffering] long [in Israel].” 4The Lord is righteous; He has cut in two the [thick] cords of the wicked [which enslaved the people of Israel]. May all who hate Zion Be put to shame and turned backward [in defeat]. 6Let them be like the grass on the housetops, Which withers before it grows up, 7With which the reaper does not fill his hand, Nor the binder of sheaves his arms,

Psalms 129:5 word by word

יֵ֭בֹשׁוּ וְיִסֹּ֣גוּ אָח֑וֹר כֹּ֝֗ל שֹׂנְאֵ֥י צִיּֽוֹן׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Let them all be confoundedבּוֹשׁbûsh · be ashamedH954
• and turnedסוּגsûg · to turnH5472
• backאָחוֹר'âchôr 'âchôr · backH268
• that hateשָׂנֵאώânê' · to hateH8130
• Zionצִיּוֹןtsîyôn · ZionH6726

Cross-references for Psalms 129:5

• Psalms 83:4They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation; Let the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
• Psalms 122:6Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May they prosper who love you [holy city].
• Esther 6:13Then Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise counselors and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall in status, is of Jewish heritage, you will not overcome him, but will certainly fall before him.”
• Esther 9:5So the Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them; and they did what they pleased to those who hated them.
• Isaiah 10:12So when the Lord has completed all His work [of judgment] on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the fruit [the thoughts, the declarations, and the actions] of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the haughtiness of his pride.”
• Isaiah 37:22this is the word that the Lord has spoken against him: “She has shown contempt for you and mocked you, The Virgin Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem); She has shaken her head behind you, The Daughter of Jerusalem!
• Zechariah 1:14So the angel who was speaking with me said to me, “Proclaim, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “I am jealous [with a burning, fiery passion] for Jerusalem and for Zion [demanding what is rightfully and uniquely mine] with a great jealousy.
• Zechariah 12:3And in that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it will be severely injured. And all the nations of the earth will come and be gathered against it.
• 1 Corinthians 16:22If anyone does not love the Lord [does not obey and respect and believe in Jesus Christ and His message], he is to be accursed. Maranatha (O our Lord, come)!

Commentaries on Psalms 129:5

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Let them all be confounded and turned back … - This might be rendered in the indicative, “they are ashamed,” but the connection seems to require the rendering in our version. It is a prayer that God would now interpose as he had done in former times, and that he would cause all the haters of Zion to be put to shame as formerly.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-8Verses 5-8 While God's people shall flourish as the loaded palm-tree, or the green and fruitful olive, their enemies shall wither as the grass upon the house-tops, which in eastern countries are flat, and what grows there never ripens; so it is with the designs of God's enemies. No wise man will pray the Lord to bless these mowers or reapers. And when we remember how Jesus arose and reigns; how his people have been supported, like the burning but…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-8The psalmist briefly reviews Israel’s history of trouble (Psalm 129:1–2) and redemption (129:3–4). He ends with curses against the enemies and blessings on the godly (Psalm 129:5–6).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5-65-6. The ill-rooted roof grass, which withers before it grows up and procures for those gathering it no harvest blessing (Ru 2:4), sets forth the utter uselessness and the rejection of the wicked.Read the comment

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Commentaries on Psalms 129

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• The Treasury of David
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary