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 mere burst of ecstatic joy. O how happy are we!
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A song of those who have been redeemed (from exile), and a hopeful prayer for those who have not yet returned....
הִגְדִּ֣יל יְ֭הוָה לַ עֲשֹׂ֥ות עִמָּ֗נוּ הָיִ֥ינוּ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The LORD hath done great things for us; [whereof] we are glad. Ver. 3. _The Lord hath done great things_] _q.d._ It is a shame, then, for us not to say so, much more; and, by a holy avarice, to take...
_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;...
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....
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...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Psalms 126:3 LORD H3068 done H6213 (H8800) things H1431 (H8689) glad H8056 Psalms 18:50,
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...
_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...
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...
Ephesians 1:18; Ezra 7:27; Ezra 7:28; Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 12:4;...