◄ Psalm 129:3 {128:3} ►
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Good News Translation
They cut deep wounds in my back and made it like a plowed field.

New Revised Standard Version
The plowers plowed on my back; they made their furrows long.”

Contemporary English Version
though my back is like a field that has just been plowed."

New American Bible
Upon my back the plowers plowed, as they traced their long furrows.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have lengthened their iniquity.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have lengthened their iniquity.

the plowers

Psalm 141:7 As when the thickness of the earth is broken up upon the ground: Our bones are scattered by the side of hell.

Isaiah 51:23 And I will put it in the hand of them that have oppressed thee, and have said to thy soul: Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as a way to them that went over.

Context
The Cords of the Wicked
…2Often have they fought against me from my youth: but they could not prevail over me. 3The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have lengthened their iniquity.4The Lord who is just will cut the necks of sinners:…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 21:4
And they shall bring her into a rough and stony valley, that never was ploughed, nor sown: and there they shall strike off the head of the heifer:

Psalm 129:2
Often have they fought against me from my youth: but they could not prevail over me.

Psalm 129:4
The Lord who is just will cut the necks of sinners:

Psalm 141:7
As when the thickness of the earth is broken up upon the ground: Our bones are scattered by the side of hell.

Psalm 129:2
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