King James Version
Psalms 129:1 in the King James Version says “A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: Many: or, Much” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 129 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: Many: or, Much”
Psalms 129:1 · KJV
A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: Many: or, Much
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me. Many: or, Much
The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows .
KJV Study — Public Domain
“have they afflicted”
H6887to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive
“me from my youth”
H5271(only in plural collective or emphatic form) youth, the state (juvenility) or the persons (young people)
'i pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the imperative or future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction
“may Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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