Psalm 129:1

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Psalm 129:1

{A Song of degrees.} Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

Have they

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May

Psalm 124:1

General references

Acts 7:19

Bible References

Have they

However the more the Israelites were oppressed, the more they increased in number and spread out. The Egyptians could not stand them any longer.

Do not give the people any more straw to make bricks as you have been doing. Let them gather their own straw.

Wherever they went the hand of Jehovah was against them for evil. For Jehovah had sworn to them and as Jehovah had sworn they were greatly distressed.

They afflicted and oppressed the sons of Israel. For eighteen years they lived in Amorite country east of the Jordan River in Gilead.

No blacksmith could be found in all of Israel. In this way the Philistines kept the Hebrews from making swords and spears.

Judah has been taken away as a prisoner because of trouble and hard work. She dwells among the nations. There is no rest for her. Her attackers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.

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Go and announce to Jerusalem, 'This is what Jehovah says: I remember the unfailing loyalty of your youth, the love you had for me as a bride. I remember how you followed me into the desert, into a land that was not sown (farmed).

They played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth. There their breasts were pressed and there their virgin bosom was handled.

I will give her vineyards from there and the valley of Achor for a door of hope. She will sing there as in the days of her youth and in the day when she came up out of Egypt.

When Israel was a young man, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.

May

([Psalm of David]) If Jehovah was not on our side, let Israel now say:

General references

He dealt treacherously with our people and oppressed our fathers so that they cast out their young children and they did not survive.