Psalm 126:1 When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dreamed.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
A song of ascents. When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dreamed.

English Standard Version
A Song of Ascents. When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.

New American Standard Bible
A Song of Ascents. When the LORD brought back the captive ones of Zion, We were like those who dream.

King James Bible
[[A Song of degrees.]] When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A song of ascents. When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.

International Standard Version
When the LORD brought back Zion's exiles, we were like dreamers.

American Standard Version
When Jehovah brought back those that returned to Zion, We were like unto them that dream.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When the lord brought back the captivity of Sion, we became like men comforted.

Darby Bible Translation
{A Song of degrees.} When Jehovah turned the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.

Young's Literal Translation
A Song of the Ascents. In Jehovah's turning back to the captivity of Zion, We have been as dreamers.

Cross References

Acts 12:9
And he went out, and followed him; and knew not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision.

Deuteronomy 30:3
That then the LORD your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the nations, where the LORD your God has scattered you.

Job 8:21
Till he fill your mouth with laughing, and your lips with rejoicing.

Job 42:10
And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Psalm 80:3
Turn us again, O God, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved.

Psalm 85:1
Lord, you have been favorable to your land: you have brought back the captivity of Jacob.

Isaiah 14:7
The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.

Jeremiah 29:14
And I will be found of you, said the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, said the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.

Jeremiah 30:19
And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

Hosea 6:11
Also, O Judah, he has set an harvest for you, when I returned the captivity of my people.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

126:1-3 It is good to observe how God's deliverances of the church are for us, that we may rejoice in them. And how ought redemption from the wrath to come, from the power of sin and of Satan, to be valued! The sinner convinced of his guilt and danger, when by looking to a crucified Saviour he receives peace to his conscience, and power to break off his sins, often can scarcely believe that the prospect which opens to him is a reality.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

PSALM 126

Ps 126:1-6. To praise for God's favor to His people is added a prayer for its continued manifestation.

1-3. When the Lord, &c.—The joy of those returned from Babylon was ecstatic, and elicited the admiration even of the heathen, as illustrating God's great power and goodness.

turned again the captivity—that is, restored from it (Job 39:12; Ps 14:7; Pr 12:14). Hengstenberg translates: "When the Lord turned Himself to the turning of Zion" (see Margin), God returns to His people when they return to Him (De 30:2, 3).