Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 129:2
Yet they have not prevailed - They endeavored to annihilate us as a people; but God still preserves us as his own nation. read more
Salmos 129:1-130 Nvipt
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 129:3
The plowers plowed upon my back - It is possible that this mode of expression may signify that the people, during their captivity, were cruelly used by scourging, etc.; or it may be a sort of proverbial mode of expression for the most cruel usage. There really appears here to be a reference to a yoke, as if they had actually been yoked to the plouph, or to some kind of carriages, and been obliged to draw like beasts of burden. In this way St. Jerome understood the passage; and this has the... read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 129:4
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. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 129:5
Let them all be confounded - They shall be confounded. They who hate Zion, the Church of God, hate God himself; and all such must be dealt with as enemies, and be utterly confounded. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 129:6
As the grass upon the housetops - As in the east the roofs of the houses were flat, seeds of various kinds falling upon them would naturally vegetate, though in an imperfect way; and, because of the want of proper nourishment, would necessarily dry and wither away. If grass, the mower cannot make hay of it; if corn, the reaper cannot make a sheaf of it. Let the Babylonians be like such herbage - good for nothing, and come to nothing. Withereth afore it groweth up - Before שלק shalak ... read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 129:8
Neither do they which go by say - There is a reference here to the salutations which were given and returned by the reapers in the time of the harvest. We find that it was customary, when the master came to them into the field, to say unto the reapers, The Lord be with you! and for them to answer, The Lord bless thee! Rth 2:4. Let their land become desolate, so that no harvest shall ever more appear in it. No interchange of benedictions between owners and reapers. This has literally taken... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 129:1
Verse 1 1.They have often afflicted me from my youth. This Psalm was probably composed at a time when the Church of God, reduced to a state of extreme distress, or dismayed by some great danger, or oppressed with tyranny, was on the verge of total destruction. This conjecture, I conceive, is supported by the adverb of time, now, which appears to me to be emphatic. It is as if the Prophet; had said, When God’s faithful ones are with difficulty drawing their breath under the burden of... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 129:3
Verse 3 3.The ploughers have ploughed upon my back. (110) Here the Prophet, by an apparent similitude, embellishes his preceding statement respecting the grievous afflictions of the Church. He compares the people of God to a field through which a plough is drawn. He says that the furrows were made long, so that no corner was exempted from being cut up by the ploughshare. These words vividly express the fact — that the cross has always been planted on the back of the Church, to make long and... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 129:5
Verse 5 5.All who hate Zion shall be confounded, and tutored backward. Whether we take this as a prayer or a promise, the Prophet has a respect to the time to come. Since all the verbs are in the future tense, it is certainly a very appropriate interpretation to understand him as deriving from times past instruction as to what is to be hoped for in future, even to the end. In whichever way we understand the passage, he declares that the faithful have no reason to be discouraged when they behold... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 129:1
Many a time have they afflicted me - The Israelites had been generally in affliction or captivity from the earliest part of their history, here called their youth. So Hosea 2:15 ; : "She shall sing as in the days of her youth, when she came up out of the land of Egypt." See Jeremiah 2:2 , and Ezekiel 16:4 , etc. read more