Psalms 129
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Israel’s Oppressors Will Not Prevail
1A Song of Ascents. “Greatly have they oppressed me from my youth”—let Israel now say—
2“Greatly have they oppressed me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.”
3Upon my back the plowmen plowed; they made long their furrows.
4Yahweh is righteous; he has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
5May they be put to shame and turned back, all who hate Zion.
6May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it is even pulled up—
7with which the reaper does not fill his hand, nor the binder of sheaves his arms.
8And those who pass by do not say, “The blessing of Yahweh be upon you! We bless you in the name of Yahweh.”
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Israel’s Oppressors Will Not Prevail
- allusion 2 Kings 19:26 — Shares the distinctive image of the wicked being like short-lived grass on the housetops that withers before growing.
- allusion Isaiah 37:27 — Parallels the same imagery of enemies as grass on the housetops blasted before it grows up.
- allusion Ruth 2:4 — Echoes the harvest-field greeting invoking Yahweh's blessing between reapers and passersby.
- thematic Hosea 11:1 — Both depict Israel's affliction and God's dealing with the nation 'from my youth' as a personified figure.
- thematic Psalms 35:4 — Both pray that enemies be put to shame and turned back.