Pastor YC "Psalm 129: Prayer for Deliverance and Judgment"

PS 129:1 They have greatly oppressed me from my youth--let Israel say--
PS 129:2 they have greatly oppressed me from my youth, but they have not gained the victory over me.

Just how oppressed were the Israelites?

PS 129:3 Plowmen have plowed my back and made their furrows long.

Imagine long furrows ploughed down our back!

Well honestly I have not come near to this kind of experience. People may have poked me here and there but nobody has ploughed long furrows down my back.

PS 129:4 But the LORD is righteous; he has cut me free from the cords of the wicked.

Lord, remove the work of the darkness far away from my life!