They Have Greatly Afflicted Me From My Youth | Psalm 129

ByMark Farrell

We’re continuing our study in the Psalms of Ascents or pilgrim songs.  And these songs were not just for those who sojourned to Jerusalem for worship but they’re songs the LORD has provided for us to sing now as we sojourn to his eternal presence.  And today we’re looking at Psalm 129.  It was just read for us, we’ve read it together and it’s a little unnerving, isn’t it?  The Psalmist uses graphic agricultural metaphors to describe his suffering and he doesn’t mince words in praying for the LORD’s justice against the wicked. 

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