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Verse Psalms 126:3. _THE LORD HATH DONE GREAT THINGS FOR US_] We
acknowledge the hand of our God. _Deus nobis haec otia fecit_, "God
alone has given us this enlargement."
_WE ARE GLAD._] This is a me...
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THE LORD HATH DONE GREAT THINGS FOR US - All that the people around us
say is true. We see it; we feel it; we acknowledge it. Those to whom
this pertained would see it more clearly than those who had...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
THE LORD HATH DONS GREAT THINGS FOR US; (WHEREOF) WE ARE GLAD. And
certainly what they say is true: we acknowledge and are glad of the...
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A song of those who have been redeemed (from exile), and a hopeful
prayer for those who have not yet returned....
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הִגְדִּ֣יל יְ֭הוָה לַ עֲשֹׂ֥ות
עִמָּ֗נוּ הָיִ֥ינוּ...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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THE LORD HATH DONE GREAT THINGS FOR US,.... These words are generally
supposed to be the words of the Jews, taking up those of the Gentiles,
and confirming them; acknowledging that the Lord had done g...
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_The Lord hath done great things for us_ And we should be very
ungrateful if we did not thankfully acknowledge it, and praise him for
the singular benefits, which excite even the wonder of strangers;...
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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....
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The Lord hath done great things for us, in providing this deliverance,
altogether without their merit and worthiness, WHEREOF WE ARE GLAD.
But while the first band of returned exiles thus voiced its h...
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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...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Psalms 126:3 LORD H3068 done H6213 (H8800) things H1431 (H8689) glad
H8056
Psalms 18:50,
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_The Lord hath done great things for us._
GREAT THINGS FOR US
I. The fact propounded. Note the personality of the statement. “For
us.”
1. As regards our country. Where is there country so fair or l...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ephesians 1:18; Ezra 7:27; Ezra 7:28; Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 12:4;...