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. By David. If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,
• Hos 11:1“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
• Jer 2:2“Go, and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
• Ps 120:1A Song of Ascents. In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.
• Ps 122:1A Song of Ascents. By David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”
• Ps 127:1A Song of Ascents. By Solomon. Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.
• Exod 1:12–14But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.
• Ps 126:1A Song of Ascents. When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.
• Judg 10:8–12They troubled and oppressed the children of Israel that year. For eighteen years, they oppressed all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
• Isa 47:12“Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; as if you might profit; as if you might prevail.
• Exod 5:7–19“You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
• Exod 1:22Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”
• Ps 125:1A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.
• Judg 2:15Wherever they went out, Yahweh’s hand was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them; and they were very distressed.
• Lam 1:3Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; she dwells among the nations, she finds no rest: all her persecutors overtook her within the straits.
• Ezek 23:3They played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their youthful nipples were caressed there.
• Ps 123:1A Song of Ascents. To you I do lift up my eyes, you who sit in the heavens.
• Ps 121:1A Song of Ascents. I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?
• Jer 22:21I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, that you didn’t obey my voice.
• Ps 88:15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
• Judg 3:8Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight years.
• 1 Sam 13:19Now there was no blacksmith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears”;
• Hos 2:15I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
• Ps 128:1A Song of Ascents. Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.
• Ezra 4:1–23Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building a temple to Yahweh, the God of Israel;

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