Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Plowmen have plowed my back and made their furrows long. New Living Translation My back is covered with cuts, as if a farmer had plowed long furrows. English Standard Version The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.” Berean Standard Bible The plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long. King James Bible The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows. New King James Version The plowers plowed on my back; They made their furrows long.” New American Standard Bible “The plowers plowed upon my back; They lengthened their furrows.” NASB 1995 “The plowers plowed upon my back; They lengthened their furrows.” NASB 1977 “The plowers plowed upon my back; They lengthened their furrows.” Legacy Standard Bible The plowers plowed upon my back; They lengthened their furrows.” Amplified Bible “The [enemies, like] plowers plowed on my back; They made their furrows [of suffering] long [in Israel].” Christian Standard Bible Plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long. Holman Christian Standard Bible Plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long. American Standard Version The plowers plowed upon my back; They made long their furrows. Aramaic Bible in Plain English The scourgers scourged upon my back and prolonged their affliction. Brenton Septuagint Translation The sinners wrought upon my back: they prolonged their iniquity. Contemporary English Version though my back is like a field that has just been plowed." Douay-Rheims Bible The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have lengthened their iniquity. English Revised Version The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows. GOD'S WORD® Translation They have plowed my back [like farmers plow fields]. They made long slashes [like furrows]." Good News Translation They cut deep wounds in my back and made it like a plowed field. International Standard Version Wicked people ploughed over my back, creating long-lasting wounds." JPS Tanakh 1917 The plowers plowed upon my back; They made long their furrows. Literal Standard Version Plowers have plowed over my back, | They have made their furrows long. Majority Standard Bible The plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long. New American Bible Upon my back the plowers plowed, as they traced their long furrows. NET Bible The plowers plowed my back; they made their furrows long. New Revised Standard Version The plowers plowed on my back; they made their furrows long.” New Heart English Bible The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long. Webster's Bible Translation The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows. World English Bible The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long. Young's Literal Translation Over my back have ploughers ploughed, They have made long their furrows. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Cords of the Wicked…2many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, but they have not prevailed against me. 3The plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long. 4The LORD is righteous; He has cut me from the cords of the wicked.… Cross References Deuteronomy 21:4 bring the heifer to a valley with running water that has not been plowed or sown, and break its neck there by the stream. Psalm 129:2 many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, but they have not prevailed against me. Psalm 129:4 The LORD is righteous; He has cut me from the cords of the wicked. Psalm 141:7 As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol. Treasury of Scripture The plowers plowed on my back: they made long their furrows. the plowers Psalm 141:7 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth. Isaiah 51:23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over. Jump to Previous Furrows Lengthened Ploughed Ploughers Ploughing Ploughmen Plowed Plowmen WoundsJump to Next Furrows Lengthened Ploughed Ploughers Ploughing Ploughmen Plowed Plowmen WoundsPsalm 129 1. An exhortation to praise God for saving Israel in their great afflictions5. The haters of the church are cursed (3) Furrows.--The Hebrew word only occurs once besides, in 1Samuel 14:14, where the margin renders as here, furrow--a rendering which plainly there is not intelligible. "Half a furrow of an acre of land," as a space in which twenty men were killed, gives no clear idea to the mind. But Dr. J. G. Wettstein, in his excursus at the end of Delitzsch's Commentary, explains the ma'an to be the strip of ground which the ploughman takes in hand at one time, and round which consequently at the end of each furrow the plough turns. Delitzsch's "furrow-strip," therefore, more exactly reproduces the word, though here doubtless it is used with a poetic freedom and may be translated furrow. The double image, suggesting the lash given to a slave, and at the same time the actual and terrible imprints of oppression left on the country as well as the race, is as striking as poetry ever produced. It, in fact, combines two separate prophetic figures, Isaiah 1:6; Isaiah 51:23.Verse 3. - The plowers plowed upon my back. A strong metaphor, which does not elsewhere occur. The idea is perhaps taken from the cruel treatment of captives in those days, who, in certain cases, were "put under saws and harrows of iron" (2 Samuel 12:31), or, as it is elsewhere expressed, "threshed with threshing instruments of iron" (Amos 1:3). They made long their furrows; i.e. "lengthened out their tortures." Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew The plowmenחָרְשׁ֣וּ (ḥā·rə·šū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 2790: To cut in, engrave, plow, devise plowed חֹרְשִׁ֑ים (ḥō·rə·šîm) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural Strong's 2790: To cut in, engrave, plow, devise over עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against my back; גַּ֭בִּי (gab·bî) Noun - common singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 1354: The back, the top, rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks they made their furrows לְמַעֲנִיתָֽם׃ (lə·ma·‘ă·nî·ṯām) Preposition-l | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 4618: A field for plowing long. הֶ֝אֱרִ֗יכוּ (he·’ĕ·rî·ḵū) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 748: To be, long Links Psalm 129:3 NIVPsalm 129:3 NLT Psalm 129:3 ESV Psalm 129:3 NASB Psalm 129:3 KJV Psalm 129:3 BibleApps.com Psalm 129:3 Biblia Paralela Psalm 129:3 Chinese Bible Psalm 129:3 French Bible Psalm 129:3 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 129:3 The plowers plowed on my back (Psalm Ps Psa.) |
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