Psalms 126:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

<A Song of the going up.> When the Lord made a change in Zion's fate, we were like men in a dream.

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  • Hos 6:11 : 11 And Judah has put up disgusting images for himself.
  • Ps 85:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah.> Lord, you were good to your land: changing the fate of Jacob.
  • Jer 31:8-9 : 8 See, I will take them from the north country, and get them from the inmost parts of the earth, and with them the blind and the feeble-footed, the woman with child and her who is in birth-pains together: a very great army, they will come back here. 9 They will come with weeping, and going before them I will be their guide: guiding them by streams of water in a straight way where there is no falling: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is the first of my sons. 10 Give ear to the word of the Lord, O you nations, and give news of it in the sea-lands far away, and say, He who has sent Israel wandering will get him together and will keep him as a keeper does his flock.
  • Ps 120:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> In my trouble my cry went up to the Lord, and he gave me an answer.
  • Joel 3:1 : 1 And after that, it will come about, says the Lord, that I will send my spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, your old men will have dreams, your young men will see visions:
  • Acts 12:9 : 9 And he went out after him; and he was not certain if what was done by the angel was a fact, for it seemed to him that he was seeing a vision.
  • Ps 121:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> My eyes are lifted up to the hills: O where will my help come from?
  • Ps 122:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up. Of David.> I was glad because they said to me, We will go into the house of the Lord.
  • Ps 123:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> To you my eyes are lifted up, even to you whose seat is in the heavens.
  • Ps 124:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up. Of David.> If it had not been the Lord who was on our side (let Israel now say);
  • Ps 125:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> Those whose hope is in the Lord are like the mountain of Zion, which may not be moved, but keeps its place for ever.
  • Ps 53:6 : 6 May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! When the fate of his people is changed by God, Jacob will have joy, and Israel will be glad.
  • Ezra 1:1-9 : 1 Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order that the word of the Lord given by the mouth of Jeremiah might come true, the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, was moved by the Lord, so that he made a public statement through all his kingdom, and put it in writing, saying, 2 These are the words of Cyrus, king of Persia: The Lord God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has made me responsible for building a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. 3 Whoever there is among you of his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and take in hand the building of the house of the Lord, the God of Israel; he is the God who is in Jerusalem. 4 And whoever there may be of the rest of Israel, living in any place, let the men of that place give him help with offerings of silver and gold and goods and beasts, in addition to the offering freely given for the house of God in Jerusalem. 5 Then the heads of families of Judah and Benjamin, with the priests and the Levites, got ready, even all those whose spirits were moved by God to go up and take in hand the building of the Lord's house in Jerusalem. 6 And all their neighbours gave them help with offerings of vessels of silver and gold and goods and beasts and things of great value, in addition to what was freely offered. 7 And Cyrus the king got out the vessels of the house of the Lord which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from Jerusalem and put in the house of his gods; 8 Even these Cyrus made Mithredath, the keeper of his wealth, get out, and he gave them, after numbering them, to Sheshbazzar, the ruler of Judah. 9 And this is the number of them: there were thirty gold plates, a thousand silver plates, twenty-nine knives, 10 Thirty gold basins, four hundred and ten silver basins, and a thousand other vessels. 11 There were five thousand, four hundred gold and silver vessels. All these were taken back by Sheshbazzar, when those who had been taken prisoner went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
  • Job 9:16 : 16 If I had sent for him to be present, and he had come, I would have no faith that he would give ear to my voice.
  • Job 42:10 : 10 And the Lord made up to Job for all his losses, after he had made prayer for his friends: and all Job had before was increased by the Lord twice as much.
  • Acts 12:14-16 : 14 And hearing the voice of Peter, in her joy she went running, without opening the door, to say that Peter was outside. 15 And they said to her, You are off your head. But still she said, with decision, that it was so. And they said, It is his angel. 16 But Peter went on giving blows on the door: and when it was open and they saw him, they were full of wonder.
  • Mark 16:11 : 11 And they, when it came to their ears that he was living, and had been seen by her, had no belief in it.
  • Luke 24:11 : 11 But these words seemed foolish to them, and they had no belief in them.
  • Luke 24:41 : 41 And because, for joy and wonder, they were still in doubt, he said to them, Have you any food here?

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    2Then our mouths were full of laughing, and our tongues gave a glad cry; they said among the nations, The Lord has done great things for them.

    3The Lord has done great things for us; because of which we are glad.

    4Let our fate be changed, O Lord, like the streams in the South.

    5Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy.

  • Ps 137:1-4
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    1By the rivers of Babylon we were seated, weeping at the memory of Zion,

    2Hanging our instruments of music on the trees by the waterside.

    3For there those who had taken us prisoners made request for a song; and those who had taken away all we had gave us orders to be glad, saying, Give us one of the songs of Zion.

    4How may we give the Lord's song in a strange land?

  • Ps 14:7
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    7May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! when the fate of his people is changed by the Lord, Jacob will have joy and Israel will be glad.

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  • Isa 52:8-9
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    8The voice of your watchmen! their voices are loud in song together; for they will see him, eye to eye, when the Lord comes back to Zion.

    9Give sounds of joy, make melody together, waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord has given comfort to his people, he has taken up the cause of Jerusalem.

  • Isa 35:10
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    10Even those whom he has made free, will come back again; they will come with songs to Zion; on their heads will be eternal joy; delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.

  • Ps 122:1-2
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    1<A Song of the going up. Of David.> I was glad because they said to me, We will go into the house of the Lord.

    2At last our feet were inside your doors, O Jerusalem.

  • Isa 51:11
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    11Those whom the Lord has made free will come back with songs to Zion; and on their heads will be eternal joy: delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.

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    1And after that, it will come about, says the Lord, that I will send my spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, your old men will have dreams, your young men will see visions:

  • Lam 5:21
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    21Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past.

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    2If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men came up against us;

    3They would have made a meal of us while still living, in the heat of their wrath against us:

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    16When the Lord has put up the walls of Zion, and has been been in his glory;

  • Ps 80:18-19
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    18So will we not be turned back from you; keep us in life, and we will give praise to your name.

    19Take us back, O Lord God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.

  • Ps 80:7
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    7Take us back again, O God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.

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    3Take us back again, O God; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.

  • Ezra 9:9
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    9For we are servants; but our God has not been turned away from us in our prison, but has had mercy on us before the eyes of the kings of Persia, to give us new strength to put up again the house of our God and to make fair its waste places, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

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    10The Lord has made clear our righteousness: come, and let us give an account in Zion of the work of the Lord our God.

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    20At that time I will make you come in, at that time I will get you together: for I will make you a name and a praise among all the peoples of the earth when I let your fate be changed before your eyes, says the Lord.

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    2The Lord is building up Jerusalem; he makes all the outlaws of Israel come together.

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    3For see, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will let the fate of my people Israel and Judah be changed, says the Lord: and I will make them come back to the land which I gave to their fathers, so that they may take it for their heritage.

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    11And Judah has put up disgusting images for himself.

  • Ps 129:5
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    5Let all the haters of Zion be shamed and turned back.

  • Deut 30:3
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    3Then the Lord will have pity on you, changing your fate, and taking you back again from among all the nations where you have been forced to go.

  • Ps 73:20
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    20As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.

  • Jer 30:18
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    18The Lord has said, See, I am changing the fate of the tents of Jacob, and I will have pity on his houses; the town will be put up on its hill, and the great houses will be living-places again.

  • Jer 31:26
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    26At this, awaking from my sleep, I saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

  • Jer 31:6
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    6For there will be a day when those who get in the grapes on the hills of Ephraim will be crying, Up! let us go up to Zion to the Lord our God.

  • Jer 9:19
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    19For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.

  • Ps 124:5-7
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    5Yes, the waters of pride would have gone over our soul.

    6Praise be to the Lord, who has not let us be wounded by their teeth.

    7Our soul has gone free like a bird out of the net of those who would take her: the net is broken, and we are free.

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    23This is the Lord's doing; it is a wonder in our eyes.

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  • Ps 85:6
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    6Will you not give us life again, so that your people may be glad in you?

  • Jer 31:23
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    23So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Again will these words be used in the land of Judah and in its towns, when I have let their fate be changed: May the blessing of the Lord be on you, O resting-place of righteousness, O holy mountain.

  • Lam 5:1
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    1Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.

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    47Be our saviour, O Lord our God, and let us come back together from among the nations, so that we may give honour to your holy name, and have glory in your praise.

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