Psalms 129:2
1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
4 The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, but they have not prevailed against me.
- KJV
- Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
- WEB
- many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.
- ASV
- Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up: Yet they have not prevailed against me.
- DARBY
- Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth; yet they have not prevailed against me.
- BLB
- Often they have distressed me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.
- ÅB
- meget har de trengt meg fra min ungdom av; men de har ikke fått overhånd over meg.
- OTB
- “Mange ganger har de angrepet meg siden min ungdom;
Men de har ikke overvunnet meg. - B1930
- meget har de trengt mig fra min ungdom av; men de har ikke fått overhånd over mig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Corinthians 4:8–9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
Read in contextRevelation 12:8–9
And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
Read in contextPsalms 34:19
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
Read in contextMatthew 16:18
And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Read in contextPsalms 125:1
They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
Read in contextJohn 16:33
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Read in contextPsalms 118:13
Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.
Read in contextPsalms 42:1
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
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