New English Translation
Psalms 129:5
5May all who hate Zion be humiliated and turned back!
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 plowers plowed my back; they made their furrows long. 4The Lord is just; he cut the ropes of the wicked.” May all who hate Zion be humiliated and turned back! 6May they be like the grass on the rooftops which withers before one can even pull it up, 7which cannot fill the reaper’s hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!
Read all of Psalms 129Psalms 129:5 word by word
יֵ֭בֹשׁוּ וְיִסֹּ֣גוּ אָח֑וֹר כֹּ֝֗ל שֹׂנְאֵ֥י צִיּֽוֹן׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 129:5
- Psalms 83:4They say, “Come on, let’s annihilate them so they are no longer a nation! Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more.”
- Psalms 122:6Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! May those who love her prosper!
- Esther 6:13Haman then related to his wife Zeresh and to all his friends everything that had happened to him. These wise men, along with his wife Zeresh, said to him, “If indeed this Mordecai before whom you have begun to fall is Jewish, you will not prevail against him. No, you will surely fall before him!”
- Esther 9:5The Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, bringing death and destruction, and they did as they pleased with their enemies.
- Isaiah 10:12But when the sovereign master finishes judging Mount Zion and Jerusalem, then I will punish the king of Assyria for what he has proudly planned and for the arrogant attitude he displays.
- Isaiah 37:22this is what the Lord says about him: “The virgin daughter Zion despises you – she makes fun of you; daughter Jerusalem shakes her head after you.
- Zechariah 1:14Turning to me, the messenger then said, “Cry out that the Lord who rules over all says, ‘I am very much moved for Jerusalem and for Zion.
- Zechariah 12:3Moreover, on that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy burden for all the nations, and all who try to carry it will be seriously injured; yet all the peoples of the earth will be assembled against it.
- 1 Corinthians 16:22Let anyone who has no love for the Lord be accursed. 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
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