# Psalm 129 ## Psalm 129:1 - [KJV] Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: - [ASV] Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up, Let Israel now say, - [YLT] Often they distressed me from my youth, Pray, let Israel say: ### Notes on Psalm 129:1 - ## Psalm 129:2 - [KJV] Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: 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. - [YLT] Often they distressed me from my youth, Yet they have not prevailed over me. ### Notes on Psalm 129:2 - ## Psalm 129:3 - [KJV] The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows. - [ASV] The plowers plowed upon my back; They made long their furrows. - [YLT] Over my back have ploughers ploughed, They have made long their furrows. ### Notes on Psalm 129:3 - ## Psalm 129:4 - [KJV] The LORD *is* righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. - [ASV] Jehovah is righteous: He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. - [YLT] Jehovah *is* righteous, He hath cut asunder cords of the wicked. ### Notes on Psalm 129:4 - ## Psalm 129:5 - [KJV] Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. - [ASV] Let them be put to shame and turned backward, All they that hate Zion. - [YLT] Confounded and turn backward do all hating Zion. ### Notes on Psalm 129:5 - ## Psalm 129:6 - [KJV] Let them be as the grass *upon* the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: - [ASV] Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth before it groweth up; - [YLT] They are as grass of the roofs, That before it was drawn out withereth, ### Notes on Psalm 129:6 - ## Psalm 129:7 - [KJV] Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom. - [ASV] Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand, Nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom. - [YLT] That hath not filled the hand of a reaper, And the bosom of a binder of sheaves. ### Notes on Psalm 129:7 - ## Psalm 129:8 - [KJV] Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD *be* upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD. - [ASV] Neither do they that go by say, The blessing of Jehovah be upon you; We bless you in the name of Jehovah. - [YLT] And the passers by have not said, 'The blessing of Jehovah *is* on you, We blessed you in the Name of Jehovah!' ### Notes on Psalm 129:8 -