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Psalms 129

2 He admonisheth the Church to rejoyce though it be afflicted. 4 For by the righteous Lord it shalbe delivered, 6 And the enemies for all their glorious shewe, shal suddenly be destroyed.
1.They have often times afflicted me from my youth (may aIsraél now say)
2.They have often times afflicted me from my youth: but they could not prevail against me.
3.The plowers plowed upon my back, and made long furrows.
4.But the brighteous Lord hathe cut the cords of the wicked.
5.They that hate Zión, shalbe all ashamed and turned backward.
6.cThey shalbe as the grass on the house tops, which withered afore it commeth forth.
7.Whereof the mower filleth not his hand, neither the gleaner his lap:
8.dNeither they, which go by, say, The blessing of the Lord be upon you, or, We bless you in the Name of the Lord.

Notes

1-a.
The Church now afflicted ought to remember, how her condition has ever been such from the beginning: to be molested most grievously by the wicked: yet in time it has ever been delivered.
4-b.
Because God is righteous, he can not but plague his adversaries, and deliver his, as oxen out of the plow.
6-c.
The enemies that lift themselves most high, and as it were, approach near to the sun, are consumed with the heat of God’s wrath, because they are not grounded in godly humility.
8-d.
That is, the wicked shall perish and none shall pass for them.