Psalms 129:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

Psalms 129:3 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 51:23
But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
Psalms 141:7
Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

Topics

Agriculture Plow

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

The church of God, in its several ages, is here spoken of, or, rather, here speaks, as one single person, now old and gray-headed, but calling to remembrance the former days, and reflecting upon the times of old. And, upon the review, it is found, 1. That the church has been often greatly distressed by its enemies on earth: Israel may now say, “I am the people that has been oppressed more than any…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3-4. The ploughing is a figure of scourging, which most severe physical infliction aptly represents all kinds.