John Trapp on Psalms 129:1

PSAL. CXXIX.

VErſ. 1 Many a time] Or, Much, and long.

Have they] i. e. The Perſecutors that deſerve not a name. The rich man is not named (as Lazarus is) becauſe not worthy. They ſhall bee written in the Earth,Luk. 10. Jer. 17.13.

Afflicted mee] i. e. The whole community of Saints; ſpoken of here in the ſingular, for their 1 Unity, 2 Paucity.

From my youth] The firſt that ever dyed, dyed for religion; ſo early came Martyrdome into the World.

May Iſrael now ſay] Who yet are promiſed peace, Pſal. 128.6. but ſo was Joſiah; and yet he dyed in battel, 2 Chron. 34.28. But the very God of peace had ſanctified him throughout, and ſo altered the property of his affliction, that it was ſubſervient to his ſalvation.