They Have Afflicted Me from My Youth

A Song of (A)Ascents.

129 “Greatly[a] have they (B)afflicted me (C)from my youth”—
    (D)let Israel now say—

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 129:1 Or Often; also verse 2

12 (A)Stand fast in your enchantments
    and your many sorceries,
    with which you have labored from your youth;
perhaps you may be able to succeed;
    perhaps you may inspire terror.

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“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord,

“I remember the devotion of (A)your youth,
    your love (B)as a bride,
(C)how you followed me in the wilderness,
    (D)in a land not sown.

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21 I spoke to you in your prosperity,
    but you said, ‘I will not listen.’
(A)This has been your way from (B)your youth,
    that you have not obeyed my voice.

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15 And there I will give her her vineyards
    and make the Valley of Achor[a] a door of hope.
And there she shall answer (A)as in the days of her youth,
    as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:15 Achor means trouble; compare Joshua 7:26

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