Psalms 126:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 126

²Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.

Psalms 126:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 8:21
Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
Isaiah 35:10
And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Zechariah 8:22-23
Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD. …
Psalms 71:19
Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!
Psalms 106:47-48
Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise. …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 1-3)

While the people of Israel were captives in Babylon their harps were hung upon the willow-trees, for then God called to weeping and mourning, then he mourned unto them and they lamented; but now that their captivity is turned they resume their harps; Providence pipes to them, and they dance. Thus must we accommodate ourselves to all the dispensations of Providence and be suitably affected with the…

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

(vv. 2)

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…