Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 126:2
They did and well might wonder at it, that a heathen emperor should of his own mere motion show so much kindness to so hateful and despicable a people as the Jews were.
They did and well might wonder at it, that a heathen emperor should of his own mere motion show so much kindness to so hateful and despicable a people as the Jews were.
Verse Psalms 126:2. _THEN WAS OUR MOUTH FILLED WITH LAUGHTER_] The same effect as was produced on the poor liberated Grecians mentioned above. _THEN SAID THEY AMONG THE HEATHEN_] The liberty now gran...
THEN WAS OUR MOUTH FILLED WITH LAUGHTER - Then were we happy; completely happy. See Job 8:21. AND OUR TONGUE WITH SINGING - We expressed our joy in songs - the natural expression of joy. Young convert...
PSALM 120-134 The Psalms of Degrees Fifteen brief Psalms follow, called songs of degrees, or, ascents. They were in all probability used by Israel going up to Jerusalem three times a year to celebrat...
CXXVI. COMFORT IN TEARS. An apparently easy and really very difficult Ps. According to the usual interpretation which is adopted in RV we have in Psalms 126:1 a picture of the joy felt when Cyrus perm...
SINGING: i.e. the songs of Isaiah 38:20. SAID THEY. was it said. HEATHEN. nations. The reference is to 2 Chronicles 32:22; 2 Chronicles 32:23. The LORD hath done great thing
DISCOURSE: 719 DELIVERANCE FROM SPIRITUAL BONDAGE ACKNOWLEDGED Psalms 126:1. When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, an...
THEN WAS OUR MOUTH, &C.— _From that moment was,_ &c. _From that moment said they,_ &c. i.e. "Never before would we indulge any joy; never before would the heathen, the Babylonians, acknowledge that Go...
PSALMS 126 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Invader Gone: the First Sowing Begun. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 126:1-3, The Deliverance of Zion calls forth the Jubilations of her People, and the Frank Acknowled...
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. THEN WAS OUR MOUTH FILLED WITH LAUGHTER, AND OUR TO...
126:2 nations, (c-18) _ Goim_ . see, Isaiah 1:4 ....
A song of those who have been redeemed (from exile), and a hopeful prayer for those who have not yet returned....
SINGING. — As frequently of the restoration in Isaiah — 42:11, 44:23, 54:1, &c. HATH DONE. — See margin, and comp. Joel 2:21....
אָ֤ז יִמָּלֵ֪א שְׂחֹ֡וק פִּינוּ֮ וּ לְשֹׁונֵ֪נוּ...
Psalms 126:1 As in Psalms 85:1, the poet's point of view here is in the midst of a partial restoration of Israel. In Psalms 126:1 he rejoices over its happy beginning, while in...
“THE LORD HATH DONE GREAT THINGS FOR US” Psalms 126:1-6; Psalms 127:1-5 The circumstances under which this psalm was written are evident upon its face. The exiles, lately back from Babylon, are re...
The general movement of these songs of Ascents is preserved in this case by the marginal reading of the first verse, better than by the text as it stands in the R.V. “When Jehovah brought back those t...
Then was our mouth (b) filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the (c) heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them. (b) He shows how the godly should rejoice whe...
Light. That is, your early rising, your labour and worldly solicitude, will be vain, that is, will avail you nothing, without the light, grace, and blessing of God. (Challoner) --- Nehemias divided th...
But as soon as the awakened, liberated sinner is made sensible of the reality, how will praises burst forth from his joyful heart! The carnal world who look on, know not what to make of it, what to th...
_GODLY MIRTH_ ‘Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing.’ Psalms 126:2 The Jews when, by God’s mercy, they were once more settled in the land of promise, gave way to the...
2._Now shall our mouth be filled with laughter. _The adverb of time, אז, _az, _is commonly translated _then; _but as the verbs are in the future tense, I have thought that it might not be improper to...
Psalms 126. The heart of the godly now finds its center in Zion, when deliverance has been learnt; for so it will be (compare Isaiah 29:4; Isaiah 29:7). How low she was brought, according to...
THEN WAS OUR MOUTH FILLED WITH LAUGHTER,.... Who before mourned, and hung their harps on the willows, and could not sing the Lord's song in a strange land; but now, as their hearts were filled, with j...
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. Ver. 2. _Then was our mouth filled with laughter_] We...
_Then was our mouth filled with laughter_ We thought ourselves in a new world, and the surprise of it put us into such an ecstasy and transport of joy, that we could scarcely contain ourselves within...
SOWING IN TEARS, REAPING IN JOY. A song of degrees, admonishing the believers to praise the Lord for the many evidences of His favor and to pray for its continued manifestation....
Then was our mouth filled with laughter, in an excess of jubilation, AND OUR TONGUE WITH SINGING, with shouts of exultation; THEN SAID THEY AMONG THE HEATHEN, who were informed of the decree of Cyrus...
HATH DONE GREAT THINGS FOR THEM: _ Heb._ hath magnified to do with them...
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 value...
Psalms 126:2 mouth H6310 filled H4390 (H8735) laughter H7814 tongue H3956 singing H7440 said H559 (H8799) nations...
Psalms 126:2 The Jews, when, by God's mercy, they were once more settled in the land of promise, gave way to the same feelings of which we are conscious when we are excited by pleasure, by prosperity...
Psalms 126:1. _When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream._ We could hardly believe it; we began to talk incoherently, as men do in their sleep. We were so carried...
This is one of the «Songs of Degrees.» They are supposed to have been sung as the pilgrim caravan was going up to the temple at Jerusalem. Every time they halted and pitched their tents, they sang a P...
CONTENTS: Thanksfulness for deliverance from captivity. CHARACTERS: God, Zion. CONCLUSION: The long want of mercies greatly sweetens them when they are returned to us. When God appears for His peopl...
Psalms 126:4. _The streams in the south,_ which water the dry lands by periodical rains and melted snows, and so make them to bring forth the most abundant harvests. REFLECTIONS. When the Jews were...
_When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion._ A POLITICAL FACT THAT IS EMBLEMATIC, AND A HUMAN EXPERIENCE THAT IS COMMON I. A political fact, emblematic of moral restoration. The political fac...
_Then was our mouth filled with laughter._ THE RAPTURE OF DELIVERANCE I. The joy of the returning Jew. 1. Bewildering. (1) The suddenness of it. (2) The instrument of it. Cyrus--a heathen. 2. Ra...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 126:1. This is a community lament that recalls a previous time of God’s mercy on his people (v. Psalms 126:1) and asks him to show that m
INTRODUCTION This Psalm was penned with reference to some great deliverance of the people of God out of bondage and distress, most likely their return out of Babylon in Ezra’s time. It is very beauti...
EXPOSITION This psalm seems to be a joint thanksgiving and complaint, composed soon after the return from the Captivity. It has been said to present an "enigmatical contrast" (Cheyne) in its two porti...
When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion (Psalms 126:1), Or when the Lord actually freed Zion from her captivity, we were like those who dream (Psalms 126:1). How many times when we see the...
Ezra 3:11; Isaiah 35:10; Isaiah 49:9; Jeremiah 31:12; Jeremiah 31:13