Psalm 129:1

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“Sorely have they afflicted me from my youth,” let Israel now say—

Cross References

Psalm 120:1

In my distress I cry to the Lord, that he may answer me:

Psalm 121:1

I lift up my eyes to the hills. From whence does my help come?

Psalm 122:1

I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord!”

Psalm 123:1

To thee I lift up my eyes, O thou who art enthroned in the heavens!

Psalm 124:1

If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, let Israel now say—

Psalm 125:1

Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides for ever.

Psalm 126:1

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

Psalm 127:1

Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

Psalm 128:1

Blessed is every one who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways!

Psalm 88:15

Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer thy terrors; I am helpless.

Exodus 1:11

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens; and they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Ra-amses.

Exodus 1:22

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”

Isaiah 47:12

Stand fast in your enchantments and your many sorceries, with which you have labored from your youth; perhaps you may be able to succeed, perhaps you may inspire terror.

Jeremiah 2:2

“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord, I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

Jeremiah 22:21

I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, that you have not obeyed my voice.

Lamentations 1:3

Judah has gone into exile because of affliction and hard servitude; she dwells now among the nations, but finds no resting place; her pursuers have all overtaken her in the midst of her distress.

Ezekiel 23:3

they played the harlot in Egypt; they played the harlot in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms handled.

Hosea 11:1

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

Hosea 2:15

And there I will give her her vineyards, and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

Judges 2:15

Whenever they marched out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had warned, and as the Lord had sworn to them; and they were in sore straits.

Judges 3:8

Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.

1 Samuel 13:19

Now there was no smith to be found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears”;