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Selected Verse: Psalms 129:5 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Ps 129:5 |
King James |
Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
The ill-rooted roof grass, which withers before it grows up and procures for those gathering it no harvest blessing (Rut 2:4), sets forth the utter uselessness and the rejection of the wicked. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Let them all be confounded and turned back ... - This might be rendered in the indicative, "they are ashamed," but the connection seems to require the rendering in our version. It is a prayer that God would now interpose as he had done in former times, and that he would cause all the haters of Zion to be put to shame as formerly. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Let them all be confounded - They shall be confounded. They who hate Zion, the Church of God, hate God himself; and all such must be dealt with as enemies, and be utterly confounded. |
4 And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The LORD be with you. And they answered him, The LORD bless thee.