Psalms 126:4
Please return and help us again, Lord. Renew us like streams of water that renew the Negev desert.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.
In Context
3The Lord certainly has done wonderful things for us. How happy we were!
5Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy!
Cross References
Psalms 85:4Bring us back to you, God of our salvation! Take away your anger towards us.
Isaiah 35:6The lame will jump like a deer, and the dumb will sing for joy. Springs will gush in the wilderness; streams will flow in the desert.
Isaiah 43:19Just look at something new I'm going to do now! In fact it's started already. Can't you see it? Yes, I'm making a way through the wilderness, rivers in the desert!
Jeremiah 30:3Look, the time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will bring back my people Israel and Judah from captivity, declares the Lord. I will bring them back to the country I gave to their forefathers, and they will own it again.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 126:2-4
The Deliverance from Captivity. 1 When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. 2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them. 3 The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad. While the people of Israel were captives in Babylon their harps were hung upon the willow-trees, for then God called to weeping and mourning, then he mourned unto them and they lamented; but now… Read the whole commentary →