Psalms 129 · Verse 4

Psalms 129:4

The Lord is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
Psalms 129:4, King James Version

Psalms 129:4 in other translations

BSBThe LORD is righteous; He has cut me from the cords of the wicked.
WEBThe LORD is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
ASVJehovah is righteous: He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
YLTJehovah is righteous, He hath cut asunder cords of the wicked.
DARBYJehovah is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
BBEThe Lord is true: the cords of the evil-doers are broken in two.
WebsterThe LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

What does Psalms 129:4 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 129:3-4

3-4. The ploughing is a figure of scourging, which most severe physical infliction aptly represents all kinds.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 4 The Lord - hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked - The words have been applied to the sufferings of Christ; but I know not on what authority. No such scourging could take place in his case, as would justify the expression: - "The ploughers made long furrows there, Till all his body was one wound." It is not likely that he received more than thirty-nine stripes. The last line is an unwarranted assertion.

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.

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Psalms 129:4 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.

יְהוָ֥הYah.wehYahwehH3068
צַדִּ֑יקtza.Dik[is] righteousH6662
קִ֝צֵּ֗ץki.Tzetzhe has cut offH7112
עֲב֣וֹתa.Vot[the] rope ofH5688
רְשָׁעִֽים\׃re.sha.'Imwicked [people]H7563

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 129:4

  • Psalms 119:137

    צ TZADDI. Righteous art thou, O Lord, and upright are thy judgments.

  • Lamentations 3:22

    It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

  • Psalms 124:6-7

    Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

  • Daniel 9:7

    O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.

  • Nehemiah 9:33

    Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:

  • Psalms 140:5-11

    The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah. I said unto the Lord, Thou art my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O Lord. O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle. Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah. …

  • Ezra 9:15

    O Lord God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.

  • Lamentations 1:18

    The Lord is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The Lord.
Ezr 9:15; Ne 9:33; La 1:18; 3:22; Da 9:7
cut asunder.
124:6,7; 140:5-11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 129:3

    The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

  • Psalms 129:4

    The Lord is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

  • Psalms 129:5

    Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

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Psalms 129:4 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Jehová es justo; cortó las coyundas de los impíos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		L’ Éternel est juste; il a coupé les cordes des méchants.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Jehova ist gerecht; er hat durchschnitten das Seil der Gesetzlosen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Quia apud te propitiatio est; et propter legem tuam sustinui te, Domine. Sustinuit anima mea in verbo ejus: