Tehillim 129:4

4 Hashem is tzaddik; He hath cut asunder the cords of the resha’im.

Tehillim 129:4 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 129:4

The Lord [is] righteous
Or gracious and merciful; hence acts of mercy are called righteousness in the Hebrew language; the Lord has compassion on his people under their afflictions, and delivers them; or is faithful to his promises of salvation to them, and just and righteous to render tribulation to them that trouble them, and take vengeance upon them;

he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked:
alluding to the cords with which the plough is fastened to the oxen, which being cut, they cannot go on ploughing; or to the cords of whips, which when, cut cannot be used to any purpose: it designs the breaking of the confederacies of wicked men against the people of God; the confounding their counsels and schemes, and disappointing their devices; so that they cannot perform their enterprises, or carry their designs into execution, or go on with and finish their intentions. The Targum renders it,

``the chains of the wicked;''

see ( Isaiah 5:18 ) .

Tehillim 129:4 In-Context

2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my ne’ur (youth); yet they have not prevailed against me.

3 The choreshim (plowers) plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.

4 Hashem is tzaddik; He hath cut asunder the cords of the resha’im.

5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Tziyon [i.e, all anti-Semites].

6 Let them be as the khatzir (grass) upon the housetops, which withereth before it groweth up;