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they made long their furrows.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/psalms/129.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />The plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/psalms/129.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/psalms/129.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />The plowers plowed on my back; They made their furrows long.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/psalms/129.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“The plowers plowed upon my back; They lengthened their furrows.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/psalms/129.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220The plowers plowed upon my back; They lengthened their furrows.&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/psalms/129.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“The plowers plowed upon my back; They lengthened their furrows.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/psalms/129.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />The plowers plowed upon my back; They lengthened their furrows.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/psalms/129.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“The [enemies, like] plowers plowed on my back; They made their furrows [of suffering] long [in Israel].”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/psalms/129.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/psalms/129.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/psalms/129.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />The plowers plowed upon my back; They made long their furrows.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/psalms/129.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />though my back is like a field that has just been plowed." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/psalms/129.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/psalms/129.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />They have plowed my back [like farmers plow fields]. They made long slashes [like furrows]."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/psalms/129.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />They cut deep wounds in my back and made it like a plowed field. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/psalms/129.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Wicked people ploughed over my back, creating long-lasting wounds." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/psalms/129.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />The plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/psalms/129.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />The plowers plowed my back; they made their furrows long. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/psalms/129.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/psalms/129.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/psalms/129.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/psalms/129.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Plowers have plowed over my back, "" They have made their furrows long.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/psalms/129.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Over my back have ploughers ploughed, They have made long their furrows.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/psalms/129.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />They ploughing, ploughed upon my back: they made long to their furrows.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/psalms/129.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have lengthened their iniquity. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/psalms/129.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br /><V 128:3>The sinners have made fabrications behind my back. They have prolonged their iniquity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/psalms/129.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Upon my back the plowers plowed, as they traced their long furrows. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/psalms/129.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />The plowers plowed on my back; they made their furrows long.”<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/psalms/129.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />They have scourged me upon my back; they have made long their oppression.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/psalms/129.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />The scourgers scourged upon my back and prolonged their affliction.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/psalms/129.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />The plowers plowed upon my back; They made long their furrows.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/psalms/129.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />The sinners wrought upon my back: they prolonged their iniquity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/psalms/129-3.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nFaD2oDhKPc?start=16439" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/psalms/129.htm">The Cords of the Wicked</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">2</span>many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, but they have not prevailed against me. <span class="reftext">3</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/2790.htm" title="2790: ḥā·rə·šū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To cut in, engrave, plow, devise.">The plowmen</a> <a href="/hebrew/2790.htm" title="2790: ḥō·rə·šîm (V-Qal-Prtcpl-mp) -- To cut in, engrave, plow, devise.">plowed</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">over</a> <a href="/hebrew/1354.htm" title="1354: gab·bî (N-csc:: 1cs) -- A back. ">my back;</a> <a href="/hebrew/4618.htm" title="4618: lə·ma·ʿă·nō·ṯå̄m (Prep-l:: N-fpc:: 3mp) -- A field for plowing. From anah, in the sense of depression or tilling; a furrow.">they made their furrows</a> <a href="/hebrew/748.htm" title="748: he·’ĕ·rî·ḵū (V-Hifil-Perf-3cp) -- To be long. A primitive root; to be long.">long.</a> </span><span class="reftext">4</span>The LORD is righteous; He has cut me from the cords of the wicked.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/50-6.htm">Isaiah 50:6</a></span><br />I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/53-5.htm">Isaiah 53:5</a></span><br />But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/3-12.htm">Micah 3:12</a></span><br />Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/12-10.htm">Jeremiah 12:10</a></span><br />Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/lamentations/3-34.htm">Lamentations 3:34</a></span><br />To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/lamentations/3-45.htm">Lamentations 3:45</a></span><br />You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/51-23.htm">Isaiah 51:23</a></span><br />I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/52-14.htm">Isaiah 52:14</a></span><br />Just as many were appalled at Him—His appearance was disfigured beyond that of any man, and His form was marred beyond human likeness—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/6-3.htm">Jeremiah 6:3</a></span><br />Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents all around her, each tending his own portion:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/34-8.htm">Ezekiel 34:8</a></span><br />‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because My flock lacks a shepherd and has become prey and food for every wild beast, and because My shepherds did not search for My flock but fed themselves instead,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/27-26.htm">Matthew 27:26</a></span><br />So Pilate released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed Him over to be crucified.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/19-1.htm">John 19:1</a></span><br />Then Pilate took Jesus and had Him flogged.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_peter/2-24.htm">1 Peter 2:24</a></span><br />He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/12-2.htm">Hebrews 12:2</a></span><br />Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-24.htm">2 Corinthians 11:24-25</a></span><br />Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. / Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">The plowers plowed on my back: they made long their furrows.</p><p class="hdg">the plowers</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/141-7.htm">Psalm 141:7</a></b></br> Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth <i>wood</i> upon the earth.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/51-23.htm">Isaiah 51:23</a></b></br> But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/psalms/65-10.htm">Furrows</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/25-15.htm">Lengthened</a> <a href="/psalms/65-10.htm">Ploughed</a> <a href="/job/4-8.htm">Ploughers</a> <a href="/job/1-14.htm">Ploughing</a> <a href="/isaiah/61-5.htm">Ploughmen</a> <a href="/judges/14-18.htm">Plowed</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/26-10.htm">Plowmen</a> <a href="/psalms/64-7.htm">Wounds</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezekiel/17-7.htm">Furrows</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-4.htm">Lengthened</a> <a href="/proverbs/13-23.htm">Ploughed</a> <a href="/job/4-8.htm">Ploughers</a> <a href="/proverbs/20-4.htm">Ploughing</a> <a href="/isaiah/61-5.htm">Ploughmen</a> <a href="/jeremiah/26-18.htm">Plowed</a> <a href="/isaiah/61-5.htm">Plowmen</a> <a href="/psalms/147-3.htm">Wounds</a><div class="vheading2">Psalm 129</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/psalms/129-1.htm">An exhortation to praise God for saving Israel in their great afflictions</a></span><br><span class="reftext">5. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/psalms/129-5.htm">The haters of the church are cursed</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/psalms/129.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/psalms/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/psalms/129.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>The plowmen plowed over my back;</b><br>This phrase evokes a vivid image of suffering and oppression. In ancient agricultural societies, plowing was a common activity, and the metaphor of plowing over one's back suggests severe affliction and hardship. Historically, Israel faced numerous oppressors, including the Egyptians, Assyrians, and Babylonians, who subjected them to harsh treatment. This imagery can also be seen as a representation of the suffering servant motif, which is a type of Christ, who endured suffering and persecution. The plowmen symbolize the enemies of Israel, and by extension, the enemies of God's people throughout history.<p><b>they made their furrows long.</b><br>The reference to "furrows" being made long indicates prolonged suffering and deep wounds. In the context of ancient Israel, this could reflect the extended periods of oppression and exile experienced by the nation. The imagery of long furrows suggests not only the depth of the suffering but also its persistence over time. This can be connected to the endurance of the faithful under persecution, as seen in other parts of Scripture, such as the endurance of Job or the trials faced by the early Christian church. Theologically, it points to the ultimate deliverance and healing that God promises to His people, as seen in the prophetic writings that speak of restoration and redemption.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/p/psalmist.htm">Psalmist</a></b><br>The author of this psalm, traditionally attributed to King David, who often wrote about the struggles and persecutions faced by Israel.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/p/plowmen.htm">Plowmen</a></b><br>Symbolic oppressors or enemies who have inflicted suffering upon the psalmist or the nation of Israel.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a></b><br>The nation often represented in the Psalms as enduring hardship and oppression from surrounding nations.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/o/oppression.htm">Oppression</a></b><br>The historical and ongoing suffering faced by the Israelites, often at the hands of foreign powers.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/g/god's_deliverance.htm">God's Deliverance</a></b><br>The overarching theme of divine rescue and justice that is prevalent throughout the Psalms.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/u/understanding_suffering.htm">Understanding Suffering</a></b><br>Recognize that suffering is a part of the Christian journey, as it was for Israel. It is not a sign of abandonment by God but a part of the fallen world.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/historical_context.htm">Historical Context</a></b><br>Reflect on the historical oppression of Israel and how it mirrors the spiritual battles faced by believers today.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/e/endurance_and_faith.htm">Endurance and Faith</a></b><br>Encourage believers to endure hardships with faith, trusting in God's ultimate deliverance and justice.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_warfare.htm">Spiritual Warfare</a></b><br>Acknowledge the spiritual dimension of suffering, where the enemy seeks to plow deep furrows in our lives, but God is our defender.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/hope_in_deliverance.htm">Hope in Deliverance</a></b><br>Emphasize the hope and assurance of God's deliverance, both in this life and the life to come.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_psalm_129.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Psalm 129</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_'plowers_plowing'_literal_or_metaphorical.htm">Is the imagery of “plowers plowing” on the Psalmist’s back (Psalm 129:3) meant to be literal or metaphorical, and how do we reconcile it with scientific or historical plausibility?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_psalm_129_1-2_match_israel's_history.htm">How does Psalm 129:1-2 align with historical records of Israel's early afflictions, and is there evidence outside the Bible to confirm such repeated oppression?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_did_the_sea_flee_and_jordan_reverse.htm">What natural explanation could account for the sea fleeing and the Jordan reversing in Psalm 114:3?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_psalm_129_5_align_with_loving_enemies.htm">How does Psalm 129's wish for adversaries to be shamed (Psalm 129:5) fit with New Testament teachings that urge believers to love and forgive their enemies?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/psalms/129.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(3) <span class= "bld">Furrows.</span>--The Hebrew word only occurs once besides, in <a href="/1_samuel/14-14.htm" title="And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.">1Samuel 14:14</a>, where the margin renders as here, <span class= "ital">furrow</span>--a rendering which plainly <span class= "ital">there </span>is not intelligible. "Half a furrow of an acre of land," as a space in which twenty men were killed, gives no clear idea to the mind. But Dr. J. G. Wettstein, in his excursus at the end of Delitzsch's Commentary, explains the <span class= "ital">ma'an </span>to be the strip of ground which the ploughman takes in hand at one time, and round which consequently at the end of each furrow the plough turns. Delitzsch's "furrow-strip," therefore, more exactly reproduces the word, though here doubtless it is used with a poetic freedom and may be translated <span class= "ital">furrow. </span>The double image, suggesting the lash given to a slave, and at the same time the actual and terrible imprints of oppression left on the country as well as the race, is as striking as poetry ever produced. It, in fact, combines two separate prophetic figures, <a href="/isaiah/1-6.htm" title="From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.">Isaiah 1:6</a>; <a href="/isaiah/51-23.htm" title="But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict you; which have said to your soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and you have laid your body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.">Isaiah 51:23</a>.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/psalms/129.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 3.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">The plowers plowed upon my back</span>. A strong metaphor, which does not elsewhere occur. The idea is perhaps taken from the cruel treatment of captives in those days, who, in certain cases, were "put under saws and harrows of iron" (<a href="/2_samuel/12-31.htm">2 Samuel 12:31</a>), or, as it is elsewhere expressed, "threshed with threshing instruments of iron" (<a href="/amos/1-3.htm">Amos 1:3</a>). <span class="cmt_word">They made long their furrows</span>; <span class="accented">i</span>.<span class="accented">e</span>. "lengthened out their tortures." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/psalms/129-3.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">The plowmen</span><br /><span class="heb">חָרְשׁ֣וּ</span> <span class="translit">(ḥā·rə·šū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2790.htm">Strong's 2790: </a> </span><span class="str2">To cut in, engrave, plow, devise</span><br /><br /><span class="word">plowed</span><br /><span class="heb">חֹרְשִׁ֑ים</span> <span class="translit">(ḥō·rə·šîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2790.htm">Strong's 2790: </a> </span><span class="str2">To cut in, engrave, plow, devise</span><br /><br /><span class="word">over</span><br /><span class="heb">עַל־</span> <span class="translit">(‘al-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> </span><span class="str2">Above, over, upon, against</span><br /><br /><span class="word">my back;</span><br /><span class="heb">גַּ֭בִּי</span> <span class="translit">(gab·bî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - common singular construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1354.htm">Strong's 1354: </a> </span><span class="str2">The back, the top, rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks</span><br /><br /><span class="word">they made their furrows</span><br /><span class="heb">לְמַעֲנִיתָֽם׃</span> <span class="translit">(lə·ma·‘ă·nî·ṯām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4618.htm">Strong's 4618: </a> </span><span class="str2">A field for plowing</span><br /><br /><span class="word">long.</span><br /><span class="heb">הֶ֝אֱרִ֗יכוּ</span> <span class="translit">(he·’ĕ·rî·ḵū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_748.htm">Strong's 748: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be, long</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/psalms/129-3.htm">Psalm 129:3 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/psalms/129-3.htm">Psalm 129:3 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/psalms/129-3.htm">Psalm 129:3 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/psalms/129-3.htm">Psalm 129:3 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/psalms/129-3.htm">Psalm 129:3 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/psalms/129-3.htm">Psalm 129:3 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/psalms/129-3.htm">Psalm 129:3 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/psalms/129-3.htm">Psalm 129:3 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/psalms/129-3.htm">Psalm 129:3 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/psalms/129-3.htm">Psalm 129:3 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/psalms/129-3.htm">OT Poetry: Psalm 129:3 The plowers plowed on my back (Psalm Ps Psa.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/psalms/129-2.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 129:2"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 129:2" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/psalms/129-4.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 129:4"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 129:4" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>