Psalms 129:2
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
Psalms 129:2 in other translations
| BSB | many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, but 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. |
| YLT | Often they distressed me from my youth, Yet they have not prevailed over me. |
| DARBY | Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth; yet they have not prevailed against me. |
| BBE | Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young, but my troubles have not overcome me. |
| Webster | Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me. |
What does Psalms 129:2 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 129:1-2
Psa 129:1-8. The people of God, often delivered from enemies, are confident of His favor, by their overthrow in the future. 1-2. may Israel now say--or, "oh! let Israel say" (Psa 124:1). Israel's youth was the sojourn in Egypt (Jr 2:2; Ho 2:15).
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 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.
Psalms 129:2 in the original Hebrew
Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.
Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).
Cross references for Psalms 129:2
- 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
- Revelation 12:8-9
And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
- Psalms 34:19
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.
- Matthew 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.
- Psalms 125:1
A Song of degrees. They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
- John 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.
- Psalms 118:13
Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the Lord helped me.
- Psalms 42:1
To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
- Job 5:19
He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
- Romans 8:35-39
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, …
Ranked by reader votes · OpenBible.info cross references (CC BY).
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Context
- Psalms 129:1
A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
- Psalms 129:2
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
- Psalms 129:3
The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
Psalms 129:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mucho me han angustiado desde mi juventud; mas no prevalecieron contra mí. |
|---|---|
| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ils m’ont souvent opprimé dès ma jeunesse; cependant ils n’ont pas prévalu sur moi. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Oftmals haben sie mich bedrängt von meiner Jugend an; dennoch haben sie mich nicht übermocht. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Domine, exaudi vocem meam. Fiant aures tuæ intendentes in vocem deprecationis meæ. |