Chapter 126

When the LORD brought back the captives to Zion, we were like those who dream. We laughed and sang. The psalm asks for restoration and says that those who sow in tears shall reap in joy.

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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

It was with reference to some great and surprising deliverance of the people of God out of bondage and distress that this psalm was penned, most likely their return out of Babylon in Ezra’s time. Though Babylon be not mentioned here (as it is, Ps. 137:1-9) yet their captivity there was the most remarkable captivity both in itself and as their return out of it was typical of our redemption by Chris…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

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Psa 126:1-6. To praise for God’s favor to His people is added a prayer for its continued manifestation. 1-3. When the Lord, &c.--The joy of those returned from Babylon was ecstatic, and elicited the admiration even of the heathen, as illustrating God’s great power and goodness. turned again the captivity--that is, restored from it (Job 39:12; Psa 14:7; Pr 12:14). Hengstenberg translates: “When the…