Israel's Woes Series

Psalm 129 Israel's Woes

1. The Reality of Her Affliction -

1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

It was Constant - 1 Many a time,

Calculated - have they afflicted me

Continual - from my youth,

Concentrated - may Israel now say:

2. The Restraint in Her Affliction - 2 many a time have they afflicted me from my youth:

yet they have not prevailed against me.

It's Consistency - 2 many a time,

It's Community - have they

It's Commodity - afflicted,

It's Coherency - me,

It's Constancy - from my youth:

It's Control - yet they have not prevailed against me.

3. The Rigour with Her Affliction -

3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

Their Identity - 3 The plowers,

Their Activity - plowed,

Their Acrimony - upon my back:

Their Intensity - they made long their furrows.

4. The Response to Her Affliction

Divine Affirmation - 4 The Lord is righteous:

Divine Intervention - he hath cut asunder

Divine Comprehension - the cords of the wicked.

5. The Resolve through Her Affliction -

A Prayer for Confusion - That God will shut them up - That They will be Discovered.

5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

It's Scope - 5 Let them all,

It's Scale - be confounded

It's Scorn - and turned back,

It's Score - that hate Zion.

A Prayer for Constriction - That God will shut them in - That They will be Defeated -

6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

Their Profit - 6 Let them be as the grass,

Their Place - upon the housetops, Their Poverty - which withereth

Their Paralysis - afore it groweth up: (Self Destruction)

A Prayer for Consumption - That God will shut them down - That They will be Depleted -

7 wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

Ecclesiastes 8:10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

The Sight - And so I saw the wicked buried,

The Scene - who had come and gone from the place of the holy,

The Sequel - they were forgotten in the city where they had so done

The Summary - this is also vanity.

A Prayer for Condemnation - That God will shun them - That They will be Disowned.

Publicly - 8 Neither do they which go by say,

Personally - The blessing of the Lord be upon you:

Perpetually - we bless you in the name of the Lord.