Psalm 129
1A song for the ascent to Jerusalem. From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me -- let Israel now say --2from my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me, but they have never been able to finish me off.3My back is covered with cuts, as if a farmer had plowed long furrows.4But the LORD is good; he has cut the cords used by the ungodly to bind me.5May all who hate Jerusalem be turned back in shameful defeat.6May they be as useless as grass on a rooftop, turning yellow when only half grown,7ignored by the harvester, despised by the binder.8And may those who pass by refuse to give them this blessing: "The LORD's blessings be upon you; we bless you in the LORD's name."
(the following is from Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary -- www.christnotes.org)
Chapter Contents
Thankfulness for former deliverances. (1-4) A believing prospect of the destruction of the enemies of Zion. (5-8)
Commentary on Psalm 129:1-4
The enemies of God's people have very barbarously endeavoured to wear out the saints of the Most High. But the church has been always graciously delivered. Christ has built his church upon a rock. And the Lord has many ways of disabling wicked men from doing the mischief they design against his church. The Lord is righteous in not suffering Israel to be ruined; he has promised to preserve a people to himself.
Commentary on Psalm 129:5-8
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 unconsumed bush, we shall not fear."
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