Psalms 129:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The ploughmen were ploughing on my back; long were the wounds they made.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 51:23 : 23 And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.
  • Ps 141:7 : 7 Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 129:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

    1 <A Song of the going up.> Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say);

    2 Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young, but my troubles have not overcome me.

  • Ps 129:4
    76%

    4 The Lord is true: the cords of the evil-doers are broken in two.

  • Job 30:10-13
    4 verses
    75%

    10 I am disgusting to them; they keep away from me, and put marks of shame on me.

    11 For he has made loose the cord of my bow, and put me to shame; he has sent down my flag to the earth before me.

    12 The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:

    13 They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;

  • Lam 1:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13 From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

    14 A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.

  • Lam 3:3-5
    3 verses
    75%

    3 Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.

    4 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

    5 He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.

  • Ps 73:14
    74%

    14 For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.

  • Job 16:10
    74%

    10 Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

  • Job 16:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

    14 I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.

  • Isa 50:6
    73%

    6 I was offering my back to those who gave me blows, and my face to those who were pulling out my hair: I did not keep my face covered from marks of shame.

  • Ps 69:26
    73%

    26 Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.

  • Ps 35:15
    73%

    15 But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.

  • Lam 3:1
    73%

    1 I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.

  • Lam 3:9
    73%

    9 He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.

  • Prov 23:35
    73%

    35 They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.

  • Ps 55:3
    73%

    3 I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

  • Isa 51:23
    73%

    23 And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.

  • Ps 57:6
    72%

    6 They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

  • Lam 3:11
    72%

    11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • Job 4:8
    72%

    8 What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.

  • Lam 1:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21 Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.

    22 Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.

  • Ps 22:16
    72%

    16 Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.

  • Ps 140:5
    72%

    5 The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. (Selah.)

  • Ps 143:3
    72%

    3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

  • Ps 3:1
    72%

    1 <A Psalm. Of David. When he went in flight from Absalom his son.> Lord, how greatly are they increased who make attacks on me! in great numbers they come against me.

  • Job 30:17
    72%

    17 The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains.

  • Ps 73:21
    72%

    21 My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:

  • Ps 35:26
    72%

    26 Let all those who take pleasure in my troubles be shamed and come to nothing: let those who are lifted up against me be covered with shame and have no honour.

  • Nah 1:12
    72%

    12 This is what the Lord has said: The days of my cause against you are ended; they are cut off and past. Though I have sent trouble on you, you will no longer be troubled.

  • Ps 107:39
    72%

    39 And when they are made low, and crushed by trouble and sorrow,

  • Ps 35:12
    71%

    12 They gave me back evil for good, troubling my soul.

  • Isa 21:3
    71%

    3 For this cause I am full of bitter grief; pains like the pains of a woman in childbirth have come on me: I am bent down with sorrow at what comes to my ears; I am shocked by what I see.

  • Ps 18:38
    71%

    38 I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

  • Job 13:26
    71%

    26 For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;

  • Ps 56:5
    71%

    5 Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

  • Job 31:38
    71%

    38 If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;

  • Ps 40:14
    71%

    14 Let those who go after my soul for its destruction have shame and trouble together; let them be turned back and made foolish who take pleasure in my trouble.

  • Lam 3:20
    71%

    20 My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.

  • Rom 11:10
    71%

    10 Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.

  • Ps 70:2
    71%

    2 Let those who go after my soul have shame and trouble; let those who have evil designs against me be turned back and made foolish.

  • Ps 129:7
    71%

    7 He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.

  • Lam 3:16
    71%

    16 By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.