(KJV) Psalm 1291

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⥃The Cords of the Wicked

A Song of degrees.

[1] Many2 a time have they3 afflicted me from4 my youth, may5 Israel now say: [2] Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have6 not prevailed against me. [3] The plowers7 plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows. [4] The Lord8 [is] righteous: he hath cut asunder9 the cords of the wicked. [5] Let them all be confounded10 and turned back that hate Zion. [6] Let them be as the grass11 [upon] the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: [7] Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth12 sheaves his bosom. [8] Neither do they which go by say, The blessing13 of the Lord [be] upon you: we bless you in the name of the Lord.

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  1. Ps 129:1, An exhortation to praise God for saving Israel in their great afflictions; Ps 129:5, The haters of the church are cursed. This Psalm was most probably composed in consequence of the opposition of the Samaritans. Ezra 4:1-23; Ps 120:1, Ps 121:1, Ps 122:1, Ps 123:1, Ps 124:1, Ps 125:1, Ps 126:1, Ps 127:1 titles Ps 128:1 title ↩

  2. or, Much. ↩

  3. Exod 1:12-14, Exod 1:22, Exod 5:7-19; Judg 2:15, Judg 10:8-12; 1Sam 13:19; Lam 1:3 ↩

  4. Jer 2:2; Ezek 23:3; Hos 2:15, Hos 11:1 ↩

  5. Ps 124:1 ↩

  6. Ps 34:19, Ps 118:13, Ps 125:1; Job 5:19; Matt 16:18; Rom 8:35-39; John 16:33; Rev 12:8-9 ↩

  7. Ps 141:7; Isa 51:23 ↩

  8. Ezra 9:15; Neh 9:33; Lam 1:18, Lam 3:22; Dan 9:7 ↩

  9. Ps 124:6-7, Ps 140:5-11 ↩

  10. Ps 83:4-11, Ps 122:6; Esth 6:13, Esth 9:5; Isa 10:12, Isa 37:22, Isa 37:28-29, Isa 37:35; Zech 1:14-17, Zech 12:3, Zech 12:6; 1Cor 16:22 ↩

  11. Ps 37:2, Ps 92:7; Jer 17:5-6; Matt 13:6 ↩

  12. Ps 126:6; Isa 17:10-11; Hos 8:7; Gal 6:8 ↩

  13. Ps 118:26; Ruth 2:4 ↩