Psalm 129:1

New International Version

“They have greatly oppressed me from my youth,” let Israel say;

Cross References

Psalm 120:1

I call on the Lord in my distress, and he answers me.

Psalm 121:1

I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from?

Psalm 122:1

I rejoiced with those who said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

Psalm 123:1

I lift up my eyes to you, to you who sit enthroned in heaven.

Psalm 124:1

If the Lord had not been on our side— let Israel say—

Psalm 125:1

Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken but endures forever.

Psalm 126:1

When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dreamed.

Psalm 127:1

Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain.

Psalm 128:1

Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in obedience to him.

Psalm 88:15

From my youth I have suffered and been close to death; I have borne your terrors and am in despair.

Exodus 1:11

So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

Exodus 1:22

Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.”

Isaiah 47:12

“Keep on, then, with your magic spells and with your many sorceries, which you have labored at since childhood. Perhaps you will succeed, perhaps you will cause terror.

Jeremiah 2:2

“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: “This is what the Lord says: “ ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the wilderness, through a land not sown.

Jeremiah 22:21

I warned you when you felt secure, but you said, ‘I will not listen!’ This has been your way from your youth; you have not obeyed me.

Lamentations 1:3

After affliction and harsh labor, Judah has gone into exile. She dwells among the nations; she finds no resting place. All who pursue her have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.

Ezekiel 23:3

They became prostitutes in Egypt, engaging in prostitution from their youth. In that land their breasts were fondled and their virgin bosoms caressed.

Hosea 11:1

“When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.

Hosea 2:15

There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will respond as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.

Judges 2:15

Whenever Israel went out to fight, the hand of the Lord was against them to defeat them, just as he had sworn to them. They were in great distress.

Judges 3:8

The anger of the Lord burned against Israel so that he sold them into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim, to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years.

1 Samuel 13:19

Not a blacksmith could be found in the whole land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “Otherwise the Hebrews will make swords or spears!”