Psalms 126:1
What meaning of the psalms 126:1 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 126:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream."
What does Psalms 126:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream."
PSALM CXXVI _The joy of the Israelites on their return from captivity, and_ _the effect their deliverance had upon the heathen_, 1-3. _The prayer which they had offered up_, 4. _The inference they...
WHEN THE LORD TURNED AGAIN THE CAPTIVITY OF ZION - Margin, as in Hebrew, “returned the returning of Zion.” The Hebrew word which is rendered in the text captivity means properly return; and then, thos...
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 celebra...
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...
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. TURNED. THE CAPTIVITY. turned the fortunes. This does not refer to. captivity or captives, but to. restoration to blessing. See Job 42:10 and Ezekiel 16:53 and Eze...
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,...
_The church, celebrating her incredible return out of captivity, prayeth for, and prophesieth the good success thereof._ A Song of Degrees. _Title._ המעלות שׁיר _Shiir hammangaloth._] This psalm is...
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 Acknowle...
When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Psalms 126:1.-Thanksgiving for the deliverance out of Babylon already vouchsafed to Zion, to her joy, so that the pag...
126:1 captivity (b-9) Strictly, 'the turning,' or 'returning,' in the sense of complete restoration and establishment of full blessing. Psalms 14:7 ; Deuteronomy 30:3 ....
TURNED AGAIN THE CAPTIVITY OF ZION] either, brought back the exiles who returned to Zion, or, turned again the fortunes of Zion, i.e. perhaps, set her free from foreign yoke....
WHEN THE LORD... — Literally, _In turning by Jehovah the turning of Zion._ The phrase is not precisely the same as that in Psalms 126:4, which is usual, and offers no difficulty. Here the form of the...
שִׁ֗יר הַֽ מַּ֫עֲלֹ֥ות בְּ שׁ֣וּב יְ֭הוָה אֶת ־שִׁיבַ֣ת צִיֹּ֑ון הָ֝יִ֗ינוּ כְּ חֹלְמִֽים׃...
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 Psalms 126:4 he prays f...
“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 r...
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...
"A Song of degrees." When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that (a) dream. (a) Their deliverance was incredible and therefore took away all excuse for ingratitude....
Of. Or "for" Solomon. This word is not in the Septuagint. (Berthier) --- Some suppose that David put the psalm into his hands, to teach him that all depends on God. (Muis) --- He was to undertake vari...
CONTENTS It is more than likely that this Psalm hath a reference to some great event in the Church's history: and hence it hath been generally supposed to refer to the return of the people from Babyl...
1._When Jehovah brought back the captivity of Zion, etc_. It is unnatural and forced to suppose, with some expositors, that this is a prediction of what was to come. For my part I have no doubt that t...
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 Psalms 12...
WHEN THE LORD TURNED AGAIN THE CAPTIVITY OF ZION,.... Or returned the Jews from their captivity in Babylon; who are called Zion, from the city of David, built on Mount Zion, which was in Judea, and ad...
Psalms 126:1 «A Song of degrees. » When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Ver. 1. _When the Lord turned again_] viz. From Babylon; and therefore that which so...
_When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion_ Brought the captive Israelites out of Babylon into their own land; _we were like them that dream_ We were so surprised and astonished at the report o...
When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, restoring His people to the Land of Promise after the long years of exile, WE WERE LIKE THEM THAT DREAM. Whether this is a prophecy or a statement of...
TURNED AGAIN THE CAPTIVITY OF ZION: _ Heb._ returned the returning of Zion...
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...
PSALM 126 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm was composed by Ezra, or some other man of God, at the return of Israel from Babylon. The church, celebrating and praising God for her return out of the Babylonian ca...
Psalms 126:1 Song H7892 Ascents H4609 LORD H3068 back H7725 (H8800) captivity H7870 Zion H6726 dream H2492 (H8802) turned again - etc. Heb. returned the returning of Zion, Psalms 53:6, Psalms 85:1; E...
A SONG OF DEGREES Literally, "of ascents." Perhaps chanted by the people as they went up to Jerusalem to the feasts. See, for example (Psalms 112:1); (Psalms 112:2)....
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...
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 mercy again (v. Psalms 126:4). ⇐ ⇔ ⇒...
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 port...
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...
Acts 12:14; Acts 12:9; Ezra 1:1; Hosea 6:11; Jeremiah 31:8; Job 42:10; Job 9:16; Joel 3:1; Luke 24:11; Luke 24:41;...
Turned — Brought the captive Israelites out of Babylon into their own land. Dream — We were so surprized and astonished....