Psalms 126:1

Bishops' Bible (1568)

A song of high degrees. When God shall cause them of Sion that were led into captiuitie for to returne: we shalbe as men that dreamed.

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  • Hos 6:11 : 11 Yea, and thou Iuda kepest an haruest for thy selfe, when I returne the captiuitie of my people.
  • Ps 85:1 : 1 To the chiefe musition, a psalme of the sonnes of Corach. O God, thou art become gracious vnto thy land: thou hast brought Iacob agayne home out of captiuitie.
  • Jer 31:8-9 : 8 Beholde, I wyll bryng them agayne from out of the north lande, and gather them from the endes of the worlde, with the blynde & lame that are among them, with the women that be great with chylde, & such as be also deliuered: and the companie of them that come agayne shalbe great. 9 They shall come weepyng, and with mercifull pitie will I bring them hither agayne: I will leade them to the riuers of water in a strayght way where they shall not stumble: For I am Israels father, and Ephraim is my first borne. 10 Heare the worde of the Lorde O ye gentiles, preache in the Isles that lye farre of, and say: He that hath scattered Israel, shall gather hym together agayne, and shall kepe hym as a sheephearde doth his flocke.
  • Ps 120:1 : 1 A song of high degrees. When I was in trouble I called vpon God: and he hearde me.
  • Joel 3:1 : 1 For beholde, in those dayes and in that time when I shall bryng agayne the captiuitie of Iuda & Hierusalem,
  • Acts 12:9 : 9 And he came out and folowed hym, and wyse not that it was trueth which was done by the Angel, but thought he had seene a vision.
  • Ps 121:1 : 1 A song of high degrees. I will lift vp myne eyes vnto the hilles: from whence my helpe shall come.
  • Ps 122:1 : 1 A song of high degrees of Dauid. I was glad when they sayde vnto me: we wyll go into the house of God.
  • Ps 123:1 : 1 A song of high degrees. I lyft vp myne eyes vnto thee: who dwellest in heauen.
  • Ps 124:1 : 1 A song of high degrees, of Dauid. If God him selfe had not ben of our side Israel may now say:
  • Ps 125:1 : 1 A song of high degrees. They that put their trust in God be as the mount Sion: whiche may not be remoued but must stande fast for euer.
  • Ps 53:6 : 6 Who is he that wyll geue saluation vnto Israel out of Sion? when the Lord wyll reduce his people out of captiuitie, Iacob wyll reioyce, and Israel wyll be glad.
  • Ezra 1:1-9 : 1 In the first yere of Cyrus king of Persia (that the worde of the Lord spoken by the mouth of Ieremia might be fulfilled) the Lorde stirred vp the spirite of Cyrus king of Persia, that he caused to be proclaymed throughout all his empyre, and to be written, saying, 2 Thus saith Cyrus the king of Persia: The Lorde God of heauen hath geuen me all the kingdomes of the earth, and hath commaunded me to build him an house at Hierusalem, which is in Iuda. 3 Whosoeuer nowe among you is of his people, the Lord his God be with him, and let him go vp to Hierusalem in Iuda, and builde the house of the Lorde God of Israel, he is the God that is at Hierusalem. 4 And whosoeuer remayneth yet in any maner of place where he is a straunger, let the men of that place helpe him with siluer and golde, with good and cattaile, beside that which they willingly offer for the house of God that is at Hierusalem. 5 Then gat vp the principall fathers of Iuda and Beniamin, and the priestes and Leuites, and all they whose spirite God had raysed to go vp and to builde the house of the Lorde which is at Hierusalem. 6 And all they that were about them, strengthed their hande with vessels of siluer & golde, with goodes, and cattaile, and iewels, besides all that was wyllingly offered. 7 And king Cyrus brought foorth the vessels of the house of the Lord: which Nabuchodonosor had taken out of Hierusalem, and had put in the house of his God. 8 Those did Cyrus the king of Persia bryng foorth by the hande of Michridates the treasurer, & numbred them vnto Sesbazer the prince of Iuda. 9 And this is the number of them: thirtie chargers of golde, a thousand chargers of siluer, twentie and nine kniues: 10 Thirtie basons of golde, and of other siluer basons foure hundred & ten: and of other vessels a thousand. 11 Al the vessels of golde and siluer were fiue thousand and foure hundred: All these did Sesbazer cary away with them that came vp out of the captiuitie of Babylon, vnto Hierusalem.
  • Job 9:16 : 16 If I had called vpon hym, and he had aunswered me, yet woulde I not beleue that he hearde my voyce:
  • Job 42:10 : 10 And the Lorde tourned the captiuitie of Iob when he prayed for his friendes: Yea the Lorde gaue Iob twyse as much as he had afore.
  • Acts 12:14-16 : 14 And when she knewe Peters voyce, she opened not the doore for gladnesse, but ran in, and tolde howe Peter stoode before the doore. 15 And they sayde vnto her: thou art mad. But she affirmed that it was euen so. Then sayde they: it is his Angel. 16 But Peter continued knockyng: And when they had opened the doore, and sawe hym, they were astonyed.
  • Mark 16:11 : 11 And they, when they hearde that he was alyue, and had ben seene of her, beleued it not.
  • Luke 24:11 : 11 And their wordes seemed vnto them fayned thynges, neither beleued they them.
  • Luke 24:41 : 41 And whyle they yet beleued not for ioy, and wondred, he sayde vnto them: Haue ye heare any meate?

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  • Ps 126:2-5
    4 verses
    83%

    2 Then shall our mouth be filled with a laughter: and our tongue with a ioyfull noyse. Then shall suche as be amongst the Heathen say: God hath brought great thinges to passe, that he myght do for them.

    3 God hath brought great thinges to passe for vs: we be made merie.

    4 Make vs O God that be led into captiuitie: for to returne as riuers into the south.

    5 They that sowe in teares: shall reape in ioy.

  • Ps 137:1-4
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    78%

    1 By the waters of Babylon we sat downe there: also we wept when we remembred Sion.

    2 We hanged our harpes on the Salon trees: in the mydst of it.

    3 For there they that led vs away captiue required of vs some matter of a song: and for our waylynges myrth, saying sing vs one of the songes of Sion.

    4 He aunswered howe can we sing one of the songes of God: in another lande besides our owne?

  • 7 Who shall geue saluation vnto Israel: out of Sion? When God will deliuer his people out of captiuitie: then wyll Iacob reioyce, and Israel be glad.

  • 6 Who is he that wyll geue saluation vnto Israel out of Sion? when the Lord wyll reduce his people out of captiuitie, Iacob wyll reioyce, and Israel wyll be glad.

  • 1 To the chiefe musition, a psalme of the sonnes of Corach. O God, thou art become gracious vnto thy land: thou hast brought Iacob agayne home out of captiuitie.

  • Isa 52:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8 Thy watchmen shall lyft vp their voyce, with loude voyce they shall reioyce together: for they shall see plainly when the Lorde shall conuert Sion.

    9 Be glad O thou desolate Hierusalem, and reioyce together: for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath deliuered Hierusalem.

  • 10 And the redeemed of the Lorde I say shall conuert and come to Sion with thankesgeuyng: euerlastyng ioy shall they haue, pleasure and gladnesse shalbe among them, and as for all sorowe and heauinesse it shall vanishe.

  • Ps 122:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 A song of high degrees of Dauid. I was glad when they sayde vnto me: we wyll go into the house of God.

    2 Our feete shall stande in thy gates: O Hierusalem.

  • 11 Therfore the redeemed of the Lorde shall turne agayne, & come with ioy vnto Sion, continuall ioy shalbe on their head, and mirth and gladnesse shalbe with them, and sorowe and wo shall flee from them.

  • 1 For beholde, in those dayes and in that time when I shall bryng agayne the captiuitie of Iuda & Hierusalem,

  • 21 O Lord turne thou vs vnto thee, and so shall we be turned, renue our dayes as in olde tymes:

  • Ps 124:1-3
    3 verses
    70%

    1 A song of high degrees, of Dauid. If God him selfe had not ben of our side Israel may now say:

    2 if God him self had not ben of our side when men rose vp against vs,

    3 Then they had swalowed vs vp quicke: when their wrath was so inflamed against vs.

  • 16 For God wyll buylde vp Sion: to be seene in his glorious maiestie.

  • Ps 80:18-19
    2 verses
    70%

    18 And so we wyll not go backe from thee: thou shalt reuiue vs, and we wyll call vpon thy name.

    19 Turne vs agayne O God, Lorde of hoastes: shewe the light of thy countenaunce, and we shalbe saued.

  • 7 Turne vs agayne thou Lorde of hoastes: shewe the light of thy countenaunce, and we shalbe saued.

  • 3 Turne vs agayne O Lorde: shewe the light of thy countenaunce, and we shalbe saued.

  • 9 For we were bondmen, and yet our God hath not forsaken vs in our bondage, but hath enclined mercie vnto vs in the sight of the king of Persia, to geue vs lyfe to set vp the house of our God, and to redresse the desolation therof, and to geue vs a wall in Iuda and Hierusalem.

  • 10 The Lorde hath brought foorth our righteousnesse: and therfore come on, we wyll shewe in Sion the worke of the Lorde our God.

  • 20 At the same time will I bring you againe, & at the same time will I gather you: I will get you a name and a good report among all people of the earth, when I turne backe your captiuitie before your eyes, sayth the Lorde.

  • 2 God buildeth vp Hierusalem: he wyll gather together the Israelites that were banished.

  • 3 For lo, the tyme commeth saith the Lorde, that I wyll bryng agayne the prisoners of my people of Israel and Iuda saith the Lorde: for I wyll restore them vnto the lande that I gaue to their fathers, and they shall haue it in possession.

  • 11 Yea, and thou Iuda kepest an haruest for thy selfe, when I returne the captiuitie of my people.

  • 5 All they that beare an euyll wyll to Sion: shalbe confounded, and be made to turne backe from it.

  • 3 And the Lorde thy God wyll turne thy captiuitie and haue compassion vpon thee, and wyll turne and fetche thee agayne from all the nations among which the Lord thy God had scattered thee.

  • 20 They be as a dreame to a man after he is once waked: O Lorde thou wylt cause their image to be dispised in the citie.

  • 18 For thus saith the Lorde, Beholde I wyll bryng agayne the captiuitie of Iacobs tentes, and defende his dwellyng place: the citie shalbe builded in her olde estate, and the houses shall haue their ryght foundation.

  • 26 When I hearde this, I came agayne to my selfe, I sawe like as I had ben waked out of a sweete sleepe.

  • 6 For the dayes shall come when the watchmen vpon the mount of Ephraim shall crye, Arise, let vs go vp vnto Sion to our Lorde God.

  • 19 For there is a lamentable noyse heard of Sion: O howe are we so sore destroyed? O howe are we so pitiously confounded? We must forsake our owne naturall countrey, and we are shut out of our owne lodginges.

  • Ps 124:5-7
    3 verses
    67%

    5 Then the waters of the proude: had flowed ouer our soule.

    6 But blessed be God, whiche hath not geuen vs ouer for a pray vnto their teeth.

    7 Our soule is escaped, euen as a byrde out of the snare of the fouler: the snare is broken, and we be escaped.

  • 23 This was the doyng of God: and it is marueylous in our eyes.

  • 8 In conclusion, it shalbe euen as when a hungry man dreameth that he is eating, and when he awaketh, his soule is emptie, or as when a thirstie man dreameth that he is drinking, and when he awaketh, he is yet fainte, and his soule hath appetite: euen so shall the multitude of all nations that fighteth against mount Sion.

  • 6 Wylt thou not turne agayne and reuiue vs: that thy people may reioyce in thee?

  • 23 For thus saith the Lorde of hoastes the God of Israel: It wyl come therto, that when I haue brought Iuda out of captiuitie, these wordes shalbe hearde in the lande and in his cities, The Lord blesse thee O thou dwellyng place of ryghteousnesse, O thou holy hyll.

  • 1 Call to remembraunce (O Lorde) what we haue suffred, consider and see our confusion.

  • 47 Saue vs O God our Lorde, and gather vs from among the Heathen: that we may geue thankes to thy holy name, and glory of thy prayse.

  • 1 To the chiefe musition vpon Susan Eduth, a golden psalme of Dauid, for to teache: (made) when he fought against Mesopotamia and Syria of Stobah, and when Ioab turned backe and slue twelue thousande Edomites in the salt valley.) O Lorde thou hast cast vs out, thou hast dispearsed vs, thou art displeased: O turne thee vnto vs agayne.