Psalms 129:3

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 51:23 : 23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
  • Ps 141:7 : 7 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Ps 129:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

    1¶ A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

    2Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

  • 4The LORD [is] righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

  • Job 30:10-13
    4 verses
    75%

    10They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

    11Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

    12Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

    13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

  • Lam 1:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate [and] faint all the day.

    14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, [and] come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into [their] hands, [from whom] I am not able to rise up.

  • Lam 3:3-5
    3 verses
    75%

    3Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand [against me] all the day.

    4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

    5He hath builded against me, and compassed [me] with gall and travail.

  • 14For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

  • 10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

  • Job 16:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

    14He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

  • 6I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

  • 26For they persecute [him] whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

  • 15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: [yea], the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear [me], and ceased not:

  • 1¶ I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

  • 9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

  • 35They have stricken me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not sick; they have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

  • 3Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

  • 23But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

  • 6They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen [themselves]. Selah.

  • 11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

  • 8Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

  • Lam 1:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21They have heard that I sigh: [there is] none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done [it]: thou wilt bring the day [that] thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.

    22Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs [are] many, and my heart [is] faint.

  • 16For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

  • 5The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

  • 3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

  • 72%

    1¶ A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many [are] they that rise up against me.

  • 17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

  • 21¶ Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

  • 26Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify [themselves] against me.

  • 12Thus saith the LORD; Though [they be] quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.

  • 39Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

  • 12They rewarded me evil for good [to] the spoiling of my soul.

  • 3Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing [of it]; I was dismayed at the seeing [of it].

  • 38I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

  • 26For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

  • 5Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts [are] against me for evil.

  • 38If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

  • 14Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

  • 20My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

  • 10Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.

  • 2Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.

  • 7Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

  • 16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.