Psalm 129:1

Blessings For Those Who Fear God

¹ A Song of Ascents.
“Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up,”
Let Israel now say,
² "Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.

All Israel

Israel

Psalm 124:1

If it had not been the LORD who was on our side-- let Israel now say--

Hosea 2:15

And there I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

Jeremiah 2:2

"Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the LORD, "I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

Psalm 120:1

In my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me.

Hosea 11:1

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

Exodus 1:12-14

But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.

Exodus 1:22

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live."

Exodus 5:7-19

"You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as in the past; let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Judges 2:15

Whenever they marched out, the hand of the LORD was against them for harm, as the LORD had warned, and as the LORD had sworn to them. And they were in terrible distress.

Judges 3:8

Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.

Judges 10:8-12

and they crushed and oppressed the people of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

1 Samuel 13:19

Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears."

Ezra 4:1-23

Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to the LORD, the God of Israel,

Psalm 88:15

Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.

Psalm 121:1

I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?

Psalm 122:1

I was glad when they said to me, "Let us go to the house of the LORD!"

Psalm 123:1

To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens!

Psalm 125:1

Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever.

Psalm 126:1

When the LORDrestored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.

Psalm 127:1

Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORDwatches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

Psalm 128:1

Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways!

Isaiah 47:12

Stand fast in your enchantments and your many sorceries, with which you have labored from your youth; perhaps you may be able to succeed; perhaps you may inspire terror.

Jeremiah 22:21

I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, 'I will not listen.' This has been your way from your youth, that you have not obeyed my voice.

Lamentations 1:3

Judah has gone into exile because of affliction and hard servitude; she dwells now among the nations, but finds no resting place; her pursuers have all overtaken her in the midst of her distress.

Ezekiel 23:3

They played the whore in Egypt; they played the whore in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms handled.