American Standard Version
Psalms 129:3
3The plowers plowed upon my back;They made long their furrows.
Psalms 129:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
- New International Version (NIV)Plowmen have plowed my back and made their furrows long.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows."
- New King James Version (NKJV)The plowers plowed on my back; They made their furrows long.”
Context of Psalms 129:3
1Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up, Let Israel now say, 2Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up: Yet they have not prevailed against me. The plowers plowed upon my back; They made long their furrows. 4Jehovah is righteous: He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. 5Let them be put to shame and turned backward, All they that hate Zion.
Read all of Psalms 129Psalms 129:3 word by word
עַל־גַּ֭בִּי חָרְשׁ֣וּ חֹרְשִׁ֑ים הֶ֝אֱרִ֗יכוּ לְמַעֲנִיתָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 129:3
- Psalms 141:7As when one ploweth and cleaveth the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
- Isaiah 51:23and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee, that have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and thou hast laid thy back as the ground, and as the street, to them that go over.
Commentaries on Psalms 129:3
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3The plowers plowed upon my back - The comparison here is undoubtedly taken from the “plowing” of land, and the idea is that the sufferings which they had endured were such as would be well represented by a plow passing over a field, tearing up the sod; piercing deep; and producing long rows or furrows. The direct allusion would seem to be to stripes inflicted on the back, as if a plow had been made to pass over it; and the meaning is, that they had been…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-4The LORD is righteous: He rescued Israel from Egypt, from many enemy attacks, and from the Babylonian exile.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3-43-4. The ploughing is a figure of scourging, which most severe physical infliction aptly represents all kinds.Read the comment
- Rashi on Tanakh · v. 3the plowmen...they lengthened their furrow That is the hill of the plowshare, as (I Sam. 13: 14): “about half a furrow (מענה) [which] a yoke [of oxen plow in] a field.”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
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