Psalm 129:3

Bible in Basic English 1965

The ploughmen were ploughing on my back; long were the wounds they made.

Cross References

Job 39:10

Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?

Psalm 141:7

Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough.

Isaiah 50:6

I was offering my back to those who gave me blows, and my face to those who were pulling out my hair: I did not keep my face covered from marks of shame.

Isaiah 51:23

And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.