Psalms 129 Cross References - CAB

¹ A Song of Degrees. Many a time have they warred against me from my youth, let Israel now say: ² Many a time have they warred against me from my youth: and yet they prevailed not against me. ³ The sinners wrought upon my back: they prolonged their iniquity. ⁴ The righteous Lord has cut in pieces the necks of sinners. ⁵ Let all that hate Zion be put to shame and turned back. ⁶ Let them be as the grass of the housetops, which withers before it is plucked up. ⁷ Wherewith the reaper fills not his hand, nor he that makes up the sheaves, his bosom. ⁸ Neither do they that go by say, The blessing of the Lord be upon you; we have blessed you in the name of the Lord.

¹² But as they humbled them, by so much they multiplied, and grew exceedingly strong. And the Egyptians greatly abhorred the children of Israel. ¹³ And the Egyptians tyrannized over the children of Israel by force. ¹⁴ And they embittered their life by hard labors, in the clay and in brick-making, and all the works in the plains, according to all the works, wherein they caused them to serve with violence.

²² And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Whatever male child shall be born to the Hebrews, cast into the river; and every female, save it alive.

⁷ You shall no longer give straw to the people for brickmaking as yesterday and the third day; but let them go themselves, and collect straw for themselves. ⁸ And you shall impose on them daily the rate of brickmaking which they perform: you shall not reduce anything, for they are idle. Therefore have they cried, saying, Let us arise and do sacrifice to our God. ⁹ Let the works of these men be made grievous, and let them care for these things, and not care for vain words. ¹⁰ And the taskmasters and the accountants hastened them, and they spoke to the people, saying, thus says Pharaoh: I will give you straw no longer. ¹¹ Go yourselves, get for yourselves straw wherever you can find it, for nothing is diminished from your rate. ¹² So the people were dispersed in all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw. ¹³ And the taskmasters hastened them, saying, Fulfill your regular daily tasks, even as when straw was given to you. ¹⁴ And the accountants of the race of the children of Israel, who were set over them by the masters of Pharaoh, were scourged, and were asked, Why have you not fulfilled your rates of brickwork as yesterday and the third day, and today also? ¹⁵ And the accountants of the children of Israel went in and cried to Pharaoh, saying, Why do you act thus to your servants? ¹⁶ Straw is not given to your servants, and they tell us to make bricks; and behold, your servants have been scourged; therefore you will injure your people. ¹⁷ And he said to them, You are idle, you are idlers. Therefore you say, Let us go and do sacrifice to our God. ¹⁸ Now then go and work, for straw shall not be given to you, yet you shall return the rate of bricks. ¹⁹ And the accountants of the children of Israel saw themselves in an evil plight, for men were saying, You shall not fail to deliver the daily rate of the brick-making.

¹⁵ among whomsoever they went; and the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord spoke, and as the Lord swore to them; and He greatly afflicted them.

⁸ And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and sold them into the hand of Cushan-Rishathaim king of Syria of the rivers: and the children of Israel served Cushan-Rishathaim eight years.

⁸ And they afflicted and bruised the children of Israel at that time eighteen years, all the children of Israel beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorite in Gilead. ⁹ And the children of Ammon went over the Jordan to fight with Judah, and Benjamin, and with Ephraim; and the children of Israel were greatly afflicted. ¹⁰ And the children of Israel cried to the Lord, saying, We have sinned against You, because we have forsaken God, and served Baalam. ¹¹ And the Lord said to the children of Israel, Did I not save you from Egypt and from the Amorite, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, ¹² and from the Sidonians, and Amalek, and Midian, who afflicted you? And you cried to Me, and I saved you out of their hand?

⁴ And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, The Lord be with you. And they said to him, The Lord bless you.

¹⁹ And there was not found a blacksmith in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears.

²⁶ And they that dwelt in them were weak in hand, they quaked and were confounded, they became as grass of the field, or as the green herb, the grass growing on houses, and that which is trodden down by him that stands upon it.

¹ And they that afflicted Judah and Benjamin heard, that the children of the captivity were building a house to the Lord God of Israel. ² And they drew near to Zerubbabel, and to the heads of families, and said to them, We will build with you; for as you do, we seek to serve our God, and we do sacrifice to Him from the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us here. ³ Then Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of the families of Israel said to them, It is not for us and you to build a house to our God, for we ourselves will build together to the Lord our God, as Cyrus the king of the Persians commanded us. ⁴ And the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and hindered them in building, ⁵ and continued hiring people against them, plotting to frustrate their counsel, all the days of Cyrus king of the Persians, and until the reign of Darius king of the Persians. ⁶ And in the reign of Ahasuerus, even in the beginning of his reign, they wrote a letter against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem. ⁷ And in the days of Artaxerxes, Tabel wrote peaceably to Mithradath and to the rest of his fellow servants: the tax collector wrote to Artaxerxes king of the Persians a writing in the Syrian tongue, and the same interpreted. ⁸ Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote an epistle against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes, saying, ⁹ Thus has judged Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of our fellow servants, the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the people of Persia, the Erech, the Babylonians, the Shushan, the Dehavites, ¹⁰ and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnapper removed, and settled them in the cities of Samaria, and the rest of them beyond the river. ¹¹ This is the contents of the letter which they sent to him: To King Artaxerxes from your servants the men of the region beyond the river: ¹² Be it known to the king, that the Jews who came up to us from you, have come to Jerusalem, the rebellious and wicked city which they are building, and its walls are set in order, and they have established the foundations of it. ¹³ Now then let it be known to the king, that if that city be built up, and its walls completed, you shall have no tribute, neither will they pay any tribute, and this injures kings. ¹⁴ And it is not lawful for us to see the dishonor of the king. Therefore have we sent and made known the matter to the king, ¹⁵ that examination may be made in your fathers' book of record. And you shall find, and you shall know that this city is rebellious, and does harm to kings and countries, and there are in the midst of it from very old time refuges for runaway slaves. Therefore this city has been made desolate. ¹⁶ We therefore declare to the king, that if this city is rebuilt, and its walls are set up, you shall have no peace. ¹⁷ Then the king sent to Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their fellow servants who dwelt in Samaria, and the rest beyond the river, saying, Peace; and he said, ¹⁸ The tax collector whom you sent to us has been called before me. ¹⁹ And a decree has been made by me, and we have examined, and found that city of old time exalts itself against kings, and that rebellions and desertions take place within it. ²⁰ And there were powerful kings in Jerusalem, and they ruled over all the country beyond the river, and abundant revenues and tribute were given to them. ²¹ Now therefore make a decree to stop the work of those men, and that city shall no more be built. ²² See that you be careful of the decree, not to be remiss concerning this matter, lest at any time destruction should abound to the harm of kings. ²³ Then the tax collector of King Artaxerxes read the letter before Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and his fellow servants. And they went in haste to Jerusalem and through Judah, and caused them to cease with horses and an armed force.

¹⁵ O Lord God of Israel, You are righteous, for we are left as a remnant, as it is this day. Behold, we are before You in our trespasses, for we cannot stand before You on this account.

³³ For You are righteous in all the things that come upon us; and You have dealt faithfully, but we have greatly sinned.

¹³ And Haman related the events that had befallen him to Zeresh his wife, and to his friends. And his friends and his wife said to him, If Mordecai is of the race of the Jews, and you have begun to be humbled before him, you will surely fall, and you will not be able to withstand him, for the living God is with him.

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¹⁹ Six times He shall deliver you out of distresses, and in the seventh, harm shall not touch you.

¹⁹ Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but out of them all the Lord shall deliver them.

² For they shall soon be withered as the grass, and shall soon fall away as the green herbs.

¹ For the end, A Psalm of instruction, for the sons of Korah. As the deer earnestly desires the fountains of water, so my soul earnestly longs for You, O God.

¹³ Let those that plot evil against my soul be ashamed and utterly fail; let those that seek my hurt be clothed with shame and dishonor.

⁴ They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; and let the name of Israel be remembered no more. ⁵ For they have taken counsel together with one consent; they have made a confederacy against You; ⁶ even the tents of the Edomites, and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites; ⁷ Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre. ⁸ Yea, Assyria too has come with them; they have become a help to the children of Lot. Pause. ⁹ Do to them as to Midian, and to Sisera; as to Jabin at the Brook of Kishon. ¹⁰ They were utterly destroyed at Endor; they became as dung for the earth. ¹¹ Make their princes as Oreb and Zeeb, and Zebah and Zalmunna; even all their princes,

¹⁵ I am poor and in troubles from my youth; and having been exalted, I was brought low and into despair.

⁷ When the sinners spring up as the grass, and all the workers of iniquity have watched; it is that they may be utterly destroyed forever.

¹³ I was thrust, and sorely shaken, that I might fall; but the Lord helped me.

²⁶ Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord; we have blessed you out of the house of the Lord.

¹³⁷ Righteous are You, O Lord, and upright are Your judgments.

¹ A Song of Degrees. In my affliction I cried to the Lord, and He hearkened to me.

¹ A Song of Degrees. I lifted up my eyes to the mountains — from where my help shall come.

¹ A Song of Degrees. I was glad when they said to me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.

⁶ Pray now for the peace of Jerusalem: and let there be prosperity to them that love you.

¹ A Song of Degrees. Unto You who dwells in heaven have I lifted up my eyes.

¹ A Song of Degrees. If it had not been that the Lord was among us, let Israel now say;

⁶ Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us for a prey to their teeth. ⁷ Our soul has been delivered as a sparrow from the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are delivered.

¹ A Song of Degrees. They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion: he that dwells in Jerusalem shall never be moved.

¹ A Song of Degrees. When the Lord turned the captivity of Zion, we became as those that are comforted.

⁶ They went on and wept as they cast their seeds; but they shall surely come with exaltation, bringing their sheaves with them.

¹ A Song of Degrees. Except the Lord build the house, they that build labor in vain: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman watches in vain.

¹ A Song of Degrees. Blessed are all they that fear the Lord; who walk in His ways.

⁵ The proud have hid a snare for me, and have stretched out ropes for snares for my feet; they set a stumbling block for me near the path. Pause. ⁶ I said to the Lord, You are my God; hearken, O Lord, to the voice of my supplication. ⁷ O Lord God, the strength of my salvation; You have covered my head in the day of battle. ⁸ Deliver me not, O Lord, to the sinner, according to my desire; they have devised mischief against me; forsake me not, lest they should be exalted. Pause. ⁹ As for the head of them that surround me, the mischief of their lips shall cover them. ¹⁰ Coals of fire shall fall upon them on the earth; and You shall cast them down in afflictions; they shall not bear up under them. ¹¹ A talkative man shall not prosper on the earth: evils shall hunt the unrighteous man to destruction.

⁷ As a lump of earth is crushed upon the ground, our bones have been scattered by the mouth of the grave.

¹² And it shall come to pass, when the Lord has finished doing all things on Mount Zion and Jerusalem, that I will visit upon the proud heart, even upon the ruler of the Assyrians, and upon the boastful haughtiness of his eyes.

¹⁰ Because you have forsaken God your Savior, and have not been mindful of the Lord your Helper; therefore shall you plant a false plant, and a false seed. ¹¹ In the day in which you shall plant you shall be deceived; but if you sow in the morning, the seed shall spring up for a crop in the day in which you shall obtain an inheritance, and as a man's father, you shall obtain an inheritance for your sons.

²² This is the word which God has spoken concerning him; The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you, and mocked you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

²⁷ I weakened their hands, and they withered; and they became as dry grass on the housetops, and as grass. ²⁸ But now I know your dwelling place, and your going out, and your coming in. ²⁹ And your wrath in which you have been enraged, and your rage has come up before Me; therefore I will put a hook in your nose, and a bit in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way which you came.

³⁵ I will protect this city to save it for My own sake, and for My servant David's sake.

¹² Stand now with your enchantments, and with the abundance of your sorcery, which you have learned from your youth; if you can be profited.

²³ And I will give it into the hands of them that injured you, and them that afflicted you; who said to your soul, Bow down, that we may pass over; and you laid your body to the ground to them passing by outside.

² I remember the kindness of your youth, and the love of your betrothal,

⁵ Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and will lean his arm of flesh upon him, while his heart departs from the Lord. ⁶ And he shall be as the wild tamarisk in the desert. he shall not see when good comes; but he shall dwell in barren places, and in the wilderness, in a salty land which is not inhabited.

²¹ I spoke to you on occasion of your trespass, but you said, I will not hearken. This has been your way from your youth, you have not hearkened to My voice.

³ ( { β}) GIMEL. Judea is gone into captivity by reason of her affliction, and by reason of the abundance of her servitude; she dwells among the nations, she has not found rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her between her oppressors.

¹⁸ ( { φ}) TSADE. The Lord is righteous, for I have provoked His mouth. Hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my grief: my virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

²² ( { η}) HETH. It is through the mercies of the Lord that He has not failed me, because His compassions are not exhausted. Pity us, O Lord, early every month: for we are not brought to an end, because His compassions are not exhausted.

³ and they went a-whoring in Egypt in their youth. There their breasts fell, there they lost their virginity.

⁷ To you, O Lord, belongs righteousness, and to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are near, and to them that are far off in all the earth, wherever You have scattered them, for the sin which they have committed.

¹⁵ And I will giver her possessions from there, and the valley of Achor to open her understanding: and she shall be afflicted there according to the days of her infancy, and according to the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

⁷ For they sowed blighted seed, and their destruction shall await them, a sheaf of corn that avails not to make meal; and even if it should produce it, strangers shall devour it.

¹ Early in the morning were they cast off, the king of Israel has been cast off: for Israel is a child, and I loved him, and out of Egypt have I called his children.

¹¹ And now have many nations gathered against you, saying, We will rejoice, and our eyes shall look upon Zion.

¹⁴ And the angel that spoke with me said to me, Cry out and say, Thus says the Lord Almighty; I have been jealous for Jerusalem and Zion with great jealousy. ¹⁵ And I am very angry with the heathen that combine to attack her: for as I indeed was a little angry, but they combined to attack her for evil. ¹⁶ Therefore thus says the Lord: I will return to Jerusalem with compassion; and My house shall be rebuilt in her, says the Lord Almighty, and a measuring line shall yet be stretched out over Jerusalem. ¹⁷ And the angel that spoke with me said to me, Cry yet, and say, Thus says the Lord Almighty; Yet shall cities be spread abroad through prosperity; and the Lord shall yet have mercy upon Zion, and shall choose Jerusalem.

³ And it shall come to pass in that day that I will make Jerusalem a trodden stone to all the nations; everyone that tramples on it shall utterly mock at it, and all the nations of the earth shall be gathered together against it.

⁶ In that day I will make the captains of thousands of Judah as a firebrand among wood, and as a torch of fire in stubble; and they shall devour on the right hand and on the left all the nations round about; and Jerusalem shall dwell again by herself, even in Jerusalem.

⁶ But when the sun rose, it was scorched, and because it had no root, it withered away.

¹⁸ And I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I shall build My church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

³³ These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation; but have courage, I have overcome the world."

³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? ³⁶ Just as it is written: "For Your sake we are put to death the whole day long; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter." ³⁷ But in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, ³⁹ nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

²² If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema. Marana tha!

⁸ in everything being oppressed, yet not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹ persecuted, but not abandoned; cast down, but not destroyed;

⁸ For he who sows to his flesh, from his own flesh will reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap everlasting life.

⁸ and he did not prevail, nor was a place found for him any longer in heaven. ⁹ And the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.