Psalms 129:5

5 (128-5) Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Sion.

Psalms 129:5 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 129:5

Let them all be confounded
Or "ashamed": as all the enemies of God's people will be sooner or later, either in this world, or however when Christ shall come in the clouds of heaven; or let them be disappointed of their views, aims, and ends, when they will be confounded, as disappointed persons are;

and turned back;
from pursuing their designs and accomplishing them; as the Assyrian monarch was, who had a hook put into his nose, and a bridle in his lips, and was turned back by the way he came, ( Isaiah 37:29 ) ;

that hate Zion;
the inhabitants of Zion, who are called out of the world, and separated from the men of it, and therefore hated by them; the King of Zion, the Messiah, whom they will not have to reign over them; the doctrines of the Gospel, the word that comes out of Zion, to which they are utter enemies; and the laws and ordinances of Zion, the discipline of God's house, which they cannot bear to be under and submit unto.

Psalms 129:5 In-Context

3 (128-3) The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have lengthened their iniquity.
4 (128-4) The Lord who is just will cut the necks of sinners:
5 (128-5) Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Sion.
6 (128-6) Let them be as grass upon the tops of houses: which withereth before it be plucked up:
7 (128-7) Who with the mower filleth not his hand: nor he that gathereth sheaves his bosom.
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