Psalm 129:1

Blessings For Those Who Fear God

¹ “Many times they have persecuted me (Israel) from my youth,”
Let Israel now say,
²
“Many times they have persecuted me from my youth,
Yet they have not prevailed against me.

All Israel

Israel

Psalm 124:1

“If it had not been the Lord who was on our side,”
Let Israel now say,

Hosea 2:15

“Then I will give her her vineyards from there,
And make the Valley of Achor a door of hope and expectation [anticipating the time when I will restore My favor on her].
And she will sing there and respond as in the days of her youth
As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.

Jeremiah 2:2

“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord,

“I remember [earnestly] the lovingkindness and devotion of your youth,
Your time of betrothal [like that of a bride during the early years in Egypt and again at Sinai],
When you followed Me in the wilderness,
Through a land not sown.

Psalm 120:1

In my trouble I cried to the Lord,
And He answered me.

Hosea 11:1

When Israel was a child [a young nation], I loved him,
And I called My son out of Egypt.

Exodus 1:12-14

But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied and expanded, so that the Egyptians dreaded and were exasperated by the Israelites.

Exodus 1:22

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Every son who is born [to the Hebrews] must be thrown into the Nile, but every daughter you shall keep alive.”

Exodus 5:7-19

“You will no longer give the people straw to make brick as before; let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Judges 2:15

Wherever they went, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil (misfortune), as the Lord had spoken, and as the Lord had sworn to them, so that they were severely distressed.

Judges 3:8

So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the Israelites served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.

Judges 10:8-12

and they oppressed and crushed Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

1 Samuel 13:19

Now no blacksmith (metal-worker) could be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Otherwise the Hebrews will make swords or spears.”

Ezra 4:1-23

Now when [the Samaritans] the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles from the captivity were building a temple to the Lord God of Israel,

Psalm 88:15

I was afflicted and close to death from my youth on;
I suffer Your terrors; I am overcome.

Psalm 121:1

I will lift up my eyes to the hills [of Jerusalem]—
From where shall my help come?

Psalm 122:1

I was glad when they said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

Psalm 123:1

Unto you I lift up my eyes,
O You who are enthroned in the heavens!

Psalm 125:1

Those who trust in and rely on the Lord [with confident expectation]
Are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but remains forever.

Psalm 126:1

When the Lord brought back the captives to Zion (Jerusalem),
We were like those who dream [it seemed so unreal].

Psalm 127:1

Unless the Lord builds the house,
They labor in vain who build it;
Unless the Lord guards the city,
The watchman keeps awake in vain.

Psalm 128:1

Blessed [happy and sheltered by God’s favor] is everyone who fears the Lord [and worships Him with obedience],
Who walks in His ways and lives according to His commandments.

Isaiah 47:12

“Persist, then, [Babylon] in your enchantments
And your many sorceries
With which you have labored from your youth;
Perhaps you will be able to profit [from them],
Perhaps you may prevail and cause trembling.

Jeremiah 22:21

“I spoke to you in your [times of] prosperity,
But you said, ‘I will not listen!’
This has been your attitude and practice from your youth;
You have not obeyed My voice.

Lamentations 1:3

Judah has gone into exile under affliction
And under harsh servitude;
She dwells among the [pagan] nations,
But she has found no rest;
All her pursuers have overtaken her
In the midst of [her] distress.

Ezekiel 23:3

and they prostituted themselves in Egypt. From their youth they were grossly immoral; in that place their breasts were embraced and their virgin bosom was grasped.