Psalms 129:3

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The plowers plowed upon my back; they made their furrows long.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 51:23 : 23 I will put it into the hands of your tormentors, who said to you, 'Bow down so we can walk over you.' You made your back like the ground, like a street for them to walk over.
  • Ps 141:7 : 7 As one plows the earth and breaks it apart, so are our bones scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 129:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

    1A song of ascents: They have greatly afflicted me from my youth—let Israel now say—

    2They have greatly afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.

  • 4The LORD is righteous; He has cut the cords of the wicked.

  • Job 30:10-13
    4 verses
    75%

    10They detest me and keep far from me; they do not refrain from spitting in my face.

    11Because God has loosened my cord and afflicted me, they throw off all restraint in my presence.

    12On my right-hand side, the mob rises up; they push away my feet and build up their ways of destruction against me.

    13They tear up my path; they help advance my ruin, even though no one comes to assist them.

  • Lam 1:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13From on high he sent fire; it burns in my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.

    14My transgressions were bound into a yoke; by his hands they were fastened together. They were laid on my neck; he has made my strength fail. The Lord has given me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.

  • Lam 3:3-5
    3 verses
    75%

    3Surely against me He turns His hand again and again, all day long.

    4He has worn away my flesh and my skin; He has broken my bones.

    5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

  • 14For I am stricken all day long and chastened every morning.

  • 10They gape at me with their mouths; they strike my cheeks in scorn and together they conspire against me.

  • Job 16:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13His archers surround me and pierce my kidneys without mercy; he pours my gall on the ground.

    14He breaks me with breach upon breach; he rushes at me like a warrior.

  • 6I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard. I did not hide my face from insults and spitting.

  • 26Let their encampments be desolate; may no one dwell in their tents.

  • 15But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; attackers I did not know came against me, ripping at me without ceasing.

  • 1I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of His wrath.

  • 9He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked.

  • 35'They struck me,' you will say, 'but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When will I wake up so I can look for another drink?'

  • 3Pay attention to me and answer me. My thoughts are restless, and I am distraught.

  • 23I will put it into the hands of your tormentors, who said to you, 'Bow down so we can walk over you.' You made your back like the ground, like a street for them to walk over.

  • 6Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let Your glory be over all the earth.

  • 11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • 8As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.

  • Lam 1:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it. Bring the day you have announced, so they may become like me.

    22Let all their wickedness come before you; deal with them as you have dealt with me because of all my sins. My groans are many, and my heart is faint.

  • 16My strength is dried up like a broken piece of pottery, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.

  • 5Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; protect me from men of violence who plot to overthrow my steps.

  • 3For the enemy has pursued me, crushing my life to the ground and making me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

  • 72%

    1A psalm of David, composed when he fled from his son Absalom.

  • 17At night my bones are pierced within me, and my veins find no rest.

  • 21When my heart was embittered and my spirit was pierced within me,

  • 26Let those who rejoice at my distress be ashamed and disgraced together; let those who exalt themselves over me wear shame and dishonor.

  • 12This is what the Lord says: 'Although they have allies and are numerous, they will be destroyed and pass away. Although I have afflicted you, Judah, I will afflict you no more.'

  • 39Yet they were diminished and brought low through oppression, calamity, and sorrow.

  • 12They repay me evil for good, leaving my soul in grief.

  • 3Therefore my body is filled with trembling; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor. I am bent over by what I heard; I am dismayed by what I saw.

  • 38I pursue my enemies and overtake them; I do not turn back until they are destroyed.

  • 26For You write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

  • 5In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

  • 38If my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,

  • 14Be pleased, LORD, to deliver me; hurry, LORD, to help me.

  • 20Surely my soul remembers and is bowed down within me.

  • 10"Let their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever."

  • 2God, deliver me! LORD, hurry to help me!

  • 7with which the reaper does not fill his hand, nor the binder of sheaves his arms.

  • 16He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in ashes.