Psalm 129:3 - The Scriptures 2009

³ “The ploughers ploughed on my back, They made their furrows long.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ The plowers plowed upon my back: They made long their furrows.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ The plowers plowed upon my back; They made long their furrows.

Common English Bible

³ They plowed my back like farmers; they made their furrows deep.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ If you, O Lord, were to heed iniquities, who, O Lord, could persevere?

Psalm 129:3 Cross References

Job 39:10

If you bind the wild ox in the furrow with ropes, would he plough the valleys behind you?

Psalm 141:7

Our bones are scattered at the mouth of She’ol, As when one ploughs and breaks up the earth.

Isaiah 50:6

I gave My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard, I did not hide My face from humiliation and spitting.

Isaiah 51:23

“And I shall put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your being, ‘Bow down, and we pass over you.’ And you made your back like the ground, and as the street, to walk over.”