{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa129.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa129.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa129.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nmay Israel now say--or, \"oh! let Israel say\" (Psa 124:1). Israel's youth was the sojourn in Egypt (Jer 2:2; Hos 2:15).\nprevailed--literally, \"been able,\" that is, to accomplish their purpose against me (Psa 13:4).\nThe ploughing is a figure of scourging, which most severe physical infliction aptly represents all kinds.\nthe cords--that is, which fasten the plough to the ox; and cutting denotes God's arresting the persecution;\nThe ill-rooted roof grass, which withers before it grows up and procures for those gathering it no harvest blessing (Rut 2:4), sets forth the utter uselessness and the rejection of the wicked.","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 129","type":"page"}