Them that Hate You - Psalms 129:5

In Psalms one hundred twenty-nine the Psalmist said, “The LORD is righteous: he has cut asunder the cords of the wicked”, and in chapter one hundred and twenty-nine and verse five of Psalms the Psalmist shared about, “them … that hate you” where we read,

Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

The verse begins, “Let them all be confounded and turned back ...” The Psalmist began with the words, “let them all” or “allow and permit each, every, the whole and everyone of them, the people who were against the following” “be confounded” which means “exist as shamed, disconcerted and disappointed” “and turned back” or “and returned, backslid and repulsed”. The Psalmist wanted Jehovah God to allow the adversaries of the following to be ashamed, disagreeable and repulsed.

The verse continues, “... that hate Zion.” The Psalmist added the words, “that hate” or “who are as foes, adversaries and enemies of” “Zion” whose name means “parched place” and was “another name for Jerusalem especially in the prophetic books”. The Psalmist said the people who are enemies to “Zion” or “Jerusalem” are the ones he wanted Jehovah God to make ashamed and repulsed.

When we consider the words in this verse, we learn how the Psalmist wanted every one of the people who were opposed to “Jerusalem” to be ashamed, disappointed and rejected. God loves people, however, those who are opposed to the ones He loves contend with Him. When we realize that “God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (See John 3:16), we have the opportunity to receive Him as our personal “Savior and Lord”. When we do, we receive forgiveness of sins, eternal life and a love for “Zion” and “Jerusalem like He does. If not, we become the enemies of “Zion” and God Himself, and woe be to those who remain in that state.

Next time the Psalmist shares about, “let them be as grass”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

Until tomorrow…there is more…

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