Psalm 129

Authorship

This Psalm is anonymous, though it has been attributed to Hezekiah.

(This began as Wendland's Expository Outline^[1], but may be adapted.)

I. The persecution. (1-3)

A. Many times have they afflicted me from my youth.

B. Yet they have not prevailed against me.

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

(Note: This is an analogy of intense suffering–if someone was plowing on your back, it would surely be painful.)

II. Power for the persecuted: The righteous Lord has cut asunder the cords of the wicked. (4)

III. The petition of the persecuted. (5-8)

A. Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

B. Let them be as the grass upon the housetops:

1. It withers before it grows up.

2. The mower fills not his hand with it.

3. It is not bound in sheaves.

C. Let not blessings of the Lord be pronounced over them.