Click here to read PSALM 129 in poetic form.
Background
Psalm 129 is in the Deuteronomy Book of the Psalms (Psalms 107-150). These 44 Psalms, like the Book of Deuteronomy in the Old Testament, show God’s Word as the source of salvation, deliverance, and healing. This would be fully carried out in the life of the coming Messiah, the living Word, Jesus Christ. Whereas Psalm 119 showed that God would raise the Messiah from the dead to eternal life, Psalm 129 is the tenth of 15 “songs of the degrees” (Psalms 120-134) regarding God keeping Hezekiah alive (see the notes on Psalm 120 for more details).
Psalm 129, written by Hezekiah, shows the Messiah’s suffering (including his scourging before being crucified) and that God cut the cords of the wicked (by raising Jesus Christ from the dead)
Structure
(Messiah’s suffering)
(Verses 1,2) Messiah is afflicted many times from his youth
(Verse 2) God protects the Messiah from his enemies
(Verse 3) Messiah’s back “plowed up” with long furrows
(Verse 4) God cuts the cords of the wicked who hate the Messiah (the wicked wither and have no blessing)
Key Scriptures
Verse 2—“Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.” The Devil sent affliction and attempted to kill Jesus Christ since he was a very young child. Yet, these attacks did not overcome God’s Son.
Verse 3—“The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.” Jesus Christ was brutally scourged before his crucifixion, as he had foretold to his disciples (Matthew 20:19; 27:26; Mark 10:34; 15:15; Luke 18:33; John 19:1).
Verse 4—“The Lord is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.” God rescued the Messiah from the cords of evil men seeking to bind him. Jesus allowed himself to be taken and crucified. Even though he died, God released him from the bonds of the grave, which could not “hold” him. Acts 2:24: “Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.”
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