Psalms 129:1

Israel is called to confess that it has been afflicted many times from its youth. It teaches God's people to remember a long history of suffering with honesty.

Cross-references · 25

• Ps 124:1A song of ascents. Of David. If the LORD had not been on our side—let Israel now declare—
• Hos 11:1When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.
• Jer 2:2“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
• Ps 120:1A song of ascents. In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He answered me.
• Ps 122:1A song of ascents. Of David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD.”
• Ps 127:1A song of ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the LORD protects the city, its watchmen stand guard in vain.
• Exod 1:12–14But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.
• Ps 126:1A song of ascents. When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.
• Judg 10:8–12who that very year harassed and oppressed the Israelites, and did so for eighteen years to all the Israelites on the other side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.
• Isa 47:12So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps you will succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!
• Exod 5:7–19“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.
• Exod 1:22Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”
• Ps 125:1A song of ascents. Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion. It cannot be moved; it abides forever.
• Judg 2:15Wherever Israel marched out, the hand of the LORD was against them to bring calamity, just as He had sworn to them. So they were greatly distressed.
• Lam 1:3Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
• Ezek 23:3and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.
• Ps 123:1A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.
• Ps 121:1A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?
• Jer 22:21I warned you when you were secure. You said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from youth, that you have not obeyed My voice.
• Ps 88:15From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
• Judg 3:8Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram-naharaim, and the Israelites served him eight years.
• 1 Sam 13:19And no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “The Hebrews must not be allowed to make swords or spears.”
• Hos 2:15There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.
• Ps 128:1A song of ascents. Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways!
• Ezra 4:1–23When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a temple for the LORD, the God of Israel,

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