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The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.
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A Brutal Image of Suffering
Commentators agree that this verse uses a powerful and brutal metaphor. The image of plowers digging long furrows into a person's back graphically depicts intense, humiliating, and prolonged suffering. It's meant to evoke the pain of being scourged like a slave or a criminal, where each lash cuts deep into the flesh.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The plowers plowed upon my back - The comparison here is undoubtedly taken from the plowing of land. The idea is that the suffering…
19th Century
Anglican
Furrows.—The Hebrew word occurs only once elsewhere, in 1 Samuel 14:14, where the margin translates it here as fur…
Baptist
Like one that has been cruelly scourged until each cut of the lash seemed to make a furrow through the quivering flesh: The plowers plowed upon…
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16th Century
Protestant
The ploughers have ploughed upon my back. Here the Prophet, by an apparent analogy, embellishes his preceding statement concerning the gri…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The ploughers ploughed upon my back "Sinners", as the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions, render it; suc…
The enemies of God's people have very barbarously endeavored to wear out the saints of the Most High. But the church has always been graciously del…
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