Psalms 129:5

What does Psalms 129:5 mean?

A plain-English look at Psalms 129:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Let them be put to shame and turned backward, All they that hate Zion.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Let them be put to shame and turned backward, All they that hate Zion.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Let all the haters of Zion be shamed and turned back.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Confounded and turn backward do all hating Zion.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

my soul hath hoped in the Lord.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Let them be ashamed and turned backward, all that hate Zion;

Context

v.4Jehovah is righteous: He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

v.5This passage

v.6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth before it groweth up;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Esther 6:13

    And Haman recounted unto Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai, before whom thou hast begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.

  • Zechariah 12:6

    In that day will I make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they shall devour all the peoples round about, on the right hand and on the left; and they of Jerusalem shall yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.

  • Isaiah 37:22

    this is the word which Jehovah hath spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion hath despised thee and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

  • Micah 4:11

    And now many nations are assembled against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye see our desire upon Zion.

  • Psalms 83:4

    They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

  • 1 Corinthians 16:22

    If any man loveth not the Lord, let him be anathema. Maranatha.

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