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 124:1If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;
• Hos 11:1When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
• Jer 2:2Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
• Ps 120:1In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
• Ps 122:1I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
• Ps 127:1Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
• Exod 1:12–14But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
• Ps 126:1When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
• Judg 10:8–12And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
• Isa 47:12Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
• Exod 5:7–19Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
• Exod 1:22And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
• Ps 125:1They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
• Judg 2:15Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.
• Lam 1:3Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
• Ezek 23:3And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
• Ps 123:1Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
• Ps 121:1I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
• Jer 22:21I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
• Ps 88:15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
• Judg 3:8Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years.
• 1 Sam 13:19Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
• Hos 2:15And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
• Ps 128:1Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.
• Ezra 4:1–23Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel;

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