Psalms 129:3 · KJV
“The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.”
— Psalms 129:3
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me. {Many...: or, Much}
The LORD {is} righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
Psalms 129 — Context
[A Song of degrees.] Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: {Many...: or, Much}
2Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me. {Many...: or, Much}
3The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
4The LORD {is} righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
5Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
Cross References
Isaiah 51:23
But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
Psalms 141:7
Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth {wood} upon the earth.