| Geneva Study Bible The LORD is {b} righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. (b) Because God is righteous, he cannot but plague his adversary, and deliver his as oxen out of the plough. Wesley's Notes 129:4 Righteous - Faithful or merciful. The cords - Wherewith the plow was drawn. By these cords he understands all their plots and endeavours. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 4. the cords-that is, which fasten the plough to the ox; and cutting denotes God's arresting the persecution; Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 129:1-4 The enemies of God's people have very barbarously endeavoured to wear out the saints of the Most High. But the church has been always graciously delivered. Christ has built his church upon a rock. And the Lord has many ways of disabling wicked men from doing the mischief they design against his church. The Lord is righteous in not suffering Israel to be ruined; he has promised to preserve a people to himself. | 
