Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

General references

Bible References

The plowers

Psalm 141:7
As when one plougheth and furroweth the earth, Scattered about, are our bones at the mouth of hades!
Isaiah 51:23
But I will put it into the hand of thy tormentors, Who said to thy soul, Bow down thus we may pass over, - And so thou didst place as the ground, thy back, Yea as the street to such as were passing along.

General references

Job 39:10
Canst thou bind the wild-ox, so that - with the ridge - shall run his cord? Or will he harrow the furrows after thee?
Acts 7:19
The same, dealing craftily with our race, ill-treated our fathers, so as to cause their babes to be exposed, to the end they might not be suffered to live.