Matthew Poole Commentary - Psalms 129:1 - 129:1

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PSALM 129



THE ARGUMENT



This Psalm contains a joyful and thankful remembrance of the church’s former and manifold calamities from barbarous enemies, and of God’s wonderful mercy in delivering them out of their hands.



The various manifold afflictions of the church described, but delivered out of all, Psa_139:1-4. The haters thereof cursed, and devoted to judgment, Psa_139:5-8.



They; mine enemies or oppressors; which is easily understood, both from the nature of the thing, and from Psa_129:3, where they are expressed under the name of ploughers.



From my youth; from the time that I was a people, when I was in Egypt and came out of it, which is called the time of Israel’s youth, Jer_2:2 Eze_23:3.