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 · 2000Let them be put to shame and turned backward, All they that hate Zion.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Let them be put to shame and turned backward, All they that hate Zion.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Let all the haters of Zion be shamed and turned back.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Confounded and turn backward do all hating Zion.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752my soul hath hoped in the Lord.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Let them be ashamed and turned backward, all that hate Zion;
Context
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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