Psalms 129:1

PSALM CXXIX

The Jews give an account of the afflictions which they have

passed through, 1-3.

And thank God for their deliverance, 4.

The judgments that shall fall on the workers of iniquity, 5-8.

NOTES ON PSALM CXXIX

This Psalm was written after the captivity; and contains a reference to the many tribulations which the Jews passed through from their youth, i.e., the earliest part of their history, their bondage in Egypt. It has no title in any of the Versions, nor in the Hebrew text, except the general one of A Psalm of Degrees. The author is uncertain.

Verse Psalms 129:1. Many a time have they afflicted me] The Israelites had been generally in affliction or captivity from the earliest part of their history, here called their youth. So Hosea 2:15: "She shall sing as in the days of her youth, when she came up out of the land of Egypt." See Jeremiah 2:2, and Ezekiel 16:4, c.