Can you tie it in the furrow with ropes, or will it harrow the valleys after you?
Psalm 129:3 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional The plowers plowed on my back; they made their furrows long.” Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The plowers plowed upon my back: They made long their furrows. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows. American Standard Version (1901) The plowers plowed upon my back; They made long their furrows. Common English Bible They plowed my back like farmers; they made their furrows deep. Catholic Public Domain Version If you, O Lord, were to heed iniquities, who, O Lord, could persevere? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it. |
Can you tie it in the furrow with ropes, or will it harrow the valleys after you?
Like a rock that one breaks apart and shatters on the land, so shall their bones be strewn at the mouth of Sheol.
I gave my back to those who struck me, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; I did not hide my face from insult and spitting.
And I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, who have said to you, “Bow down, that we may walk on you”; and you have made your back like the ground and like the street for them to walk on.