The Cords of the Wicked
Psalms 129:3
In 11 translations
- BSB
- The plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.
- KJV
- The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
- WEB
- The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.
- ASV
- The plowers plowed upon my back; They made long their furrows.
- LSV
- Plowers have plowed over my back, || They have made their furrows long.
- YLT
- Over my back have ploughers ploughed, They have made long their furrows.
- DBY
- The ploughers ploughed upon my back; they made long their furrows.
- DRC128:3
- The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have lengthened their iniquity.
- GNV
- The plowers plowed vpon my backe, and made long furrowes.
- JPS
- The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.
- LXXE128:3
- The sinners wrought upon my back: they prolonged their iniquity.שיך iniquity, easily read for שוכה a furrow.
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- Written (Ketiv): לְמַעֲנוֹתָם׃ (“to furrow their”). Read aloud (Qere): לְמַעֲנִיתָֽם׃ (“to furrows their”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads לְמַעֲנִותָֽם׃; read aloud (Qere) reads לְמַעֲנִיתָֽם׃ (“to furrows their”).
Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- עַל־גַּ֭בִּי חָרְשׁ֣וּ חֹרְשִׁ֑ים הֶ֝אֱרִ֗יכוּ למענותם׃Read aloud as (qere): לְמַעֲנִיתָֽם
- LXX-Br128:3
- Ἐπὶ τὸν νῶτόν μου ἐτέκταινον οἱ ἁμαρτωλοὶ, ἐμάκρυναν τὴν ἀνομίαν αὐτῶν.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- Isaiah 51:23I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”
- Psalms 141:7As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 128:3 in some Bibles
- 129:3 in most Bibles