Psalm 126:1 {125:1}
Good News Translation
When the LORD brought us back to Jerusalem, it was like a dream!

New Revised Standard Version
When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.

Contemporary English Version
It seemed like a dream when the LORD brought us back to the city of Zion.

New American Bible
A song of ascents. When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we thought we were dreaming.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A gradual canticle. When the Lord brought back the captivity of Sion, we became like men comforted.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A gradual canticle. When the Lord brought back the captivity of Sion, we became like men comforted.

A Song of Degrees.

Psalm 120:1 In my trouble I cried to the Lord: and he heard me.

Psalm 121:1 I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains, from whence help shall come to me.

Psalm 122:1 A gradual canticle. I rejoiced at the things that were said to me: We shall go into the house of the Lord.

Psalm 123:1 To thee have I lifted up my eyes, who dwellest in heaven.

Psalm 124:1 A gradual canticle. If it had not been that the Lord was with us, let Israel now say:

Psalm 125:1 A gradual canticle. They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Sion: he shall not be moved for ever that dwelleth

turned again, etc.

Psalm 53:6 Who will give out of Sion the salvation of Israel? when God shall bring back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

Psalm 85:1 Unto the end, for the sons of Core, a psalm. [2] Lord, thou hast blessed thy land: thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob.

Ezra 1:1 In the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians: and he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and in writing also, saying:

Job 42:10 The Lord also was turned at the penance of Job, when he prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Jeremiah 31:8-10 Behold I will bring them from the north country, and will gather them from the ends of the earth and among them shall be the blind, and the lame, the woman with child, and she that is bringing forth, together, a great company of them returning hither. . . .

Hosea 6:11 And thou also, O Juda, set thee a harvest, when I shall bring back the captivity of my people.

Joel 3:1 For behold in those days, and in that time when I shall bring back the captivity of Juda, and Jerusalem:

we were like

Job 9:16 And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he had heard my voice.

Mark 16:11 And they hearing that he was alive and had been seen by her, did not believe.

Luke 24:11,41 And these words seemed to them as idle tales: and they did not believe them. . . .

Acts 12:9,14-16 And going out, he followed him. And he knew not that it was true which was done by the angel: but thought he saw a vision. . . .

Context
The LORD Has Done Great Things
1A gradual canticle. When the Lord brought back the captivity of Sion, we became like men comforted.2Then was our mouth filled with gladness; and our tongue with joy. Then shall they say among the Gentiles: The Lord hath done great things for them.…
Cross References
Acts 12:9
And going out, he followed him. And he knew not that it was true which was done by the angel: but thought he saw a vision.

Deuteronomy 30:3
The Lord thy God will bring back again thy captivity, and will have mercy on thee, and gather thee again out of all the nations, into which he scattered thee before.

Job 8:21
Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with rejoicing.

Job 42:10
The Lord also was turned at the penance of Job, when he prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Psalm 80:3
Convert us, O God: and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved.

Psalm 85:1
Unto the end, for the sons of Core, a psalm. [2] Lord, thou hast blessed thy land: thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob.

Isaiah 14:7
The whole earth is quiet and still, it is glad and hath rejoiced.

Jeremiah 29:14
And I will be found by you, saith the Lord: and I will bring back your captivity, and I will gather you out of all nations, and from all the places to which I have driven you out, saith the Lord: and I will bring you back from the place to which I caused you to be carried away captive.

Jeremiah 30:19
And out of them shall come forth praise, and the voice of them that play: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be made few: and I will glorify them, and they shall not be lessened.

Hosea 6:11
And thou also, O Juda, set thee a harvest, when I shall bring back the captivity of my people.

Zechariah 8:6
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: If it seem hard in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days: shall it be hard in my eyes, saith the Lord of hosts?

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