Psalm 129 is the type of Psalm where the song leader whom they call a canter, he's really the music leader.

And the canter would recite one word, and then the people will recite the same word after him.

Repeat that word. Look with me, please, in verses 1 and 2. Israel youth is the time

when they came into their own as a nation in the middle of the slavery of Egypt. For 400

years, they experienced pain and suffering and slavery before God delivered them. That is considered

to be the time of Israel's youth. In fact, the book of Hosiah, the prophet Hosiah, in chapter 11,

verse one, he talks about that. He said, the Lord speaking through him, he said, when Israel was a child,

I loved him. And out of Egypt, I called my son. In fact, that is why Matthew, the writer of the

gospel, he sees the fulfillment of that very prophecy in Jesus. When he escaped into Egypt for a period of time, and God said,

out of Egypt, I called my son. In other words, Matthew is saying that Israel was the son that was

not obedient to God, but Jesus is the son who's obedient, in whom this prophecy of Hosea completely fulfilled.

Out of Egypt, I call my son.

After years of slavery under Pharaoh, yet they kept on going anyway.

When Pharaoh failed to call their numbers, he began to kill every newborn male.

But God protected Moses, and he raised him up to be his instrument to deliver them from slavery.

But it was not only in—watch these words. it was not only in their youth that they were oppressed,

but from the youth they've been oppressed, in their youth, but also from that time on they've been

oppressed, from their youth the psalmist writes. Most of you know biblical history, and I'm not going to

repeat it, from the earliest days to the day of the writing of this Psalm, they were harassed

and persecuted by the Philistines, by the Assyrians, by the Moabites, by the Ammonites, by the Edomites,

and all the mosquito bites.

In fact, the prophet Amos names the big cities that were designed and had strategy to oppress and destroy Israel.

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