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Psalm 129
- Purpose
- To offer praise and prayer to God, to supply God’s people with texts for worship, and to provide reflection on the sovereignty of God and some of life’s toughest questions
- Author
- Various; nearly half are linked with David
- Date
- Written over the course of many centuries; the process of collecting and editing was likely completed after the Babylonian exile
- Setting
- Varied, but a postexilic setting accounts for much of the editorial activity and grouping of the psalms
Psalms has 36,194 words: about 2 hours 32 minutes to read, or 4 hours 18 minutes to listen to. Read it from the start or listen from the start.
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A Song of degrees.
1Many a
2Many a
3The
4The
5Let them all be
6Let them be as the
7Wherewith the
8Neither do they which go
Footnotes
The Cords of the Wicked
A song of ascents.
1Many a time they have persecuted me from my youth—let Israel now declare— 2many a time they have persecuted me from my youth,but they have not prevailed against me. 3The plowmen plowed over my back;they made their furrows long. 4The LORD is righteous;He has cut me from the cords of the wicked.
5May all who hate Zionbe turned back in shame. 6May they be like grass on the rooftops,which withers before it can grow, 7unable to fill the hands of the reaper,or the arms of the binder of sheaves. 8May none who pass by say to them,“The blessing of the LORD be on you;we bless you in the name of the LORD.”
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