Psalms 126:3

Geneva Bible (1560)

The Lord hath done great things for vs, whereof we reioyce.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הִגְדִּ֣יל יְ֭הוָה לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת עִמָּ֗נוּ הָיִ֥ינוּ שְׂמֵחִֽים׃

Transliteration

higdîl YHWH laʿăśôt with-ʿimmānû hāyînû śǝmēḥîm

Grammar Details

• *higdîl*: hiphil perfect, 3rd masculine singular - has done great things
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
• *laʿăśôt*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - to do
• *ʿimmānû*: preposition with 1st person plural suffix - with us
• *hāyînû*: qal perfect, 1st person plural - we were/have been
• *śǝmēḥîm*: masculine plural adjective - joyful/glad

Word Meanings

• *higdîl*: magnified/done great things
• *śǝmēḥîm*: glad/joyful/rejoicing

Referenced Verses

• Rev 19:1-7 : 1 And after these things I heard a great voyce of a great multitude in heauen, saying, Hallelu-iah, saluation, and glorie, and honour, and power be to the Lord our God. 2 For true and righteous are his iudgements: for he hath condemned that great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath auenged the blood of his seruants shed by her hand. 3 And againe they saide, Hallelu-iah: and that her smoke rose vp for euermore. 4 And the foure & twentie Elders, and the foure beastes fell downe, and worshipped God that sate on the throne, saying, Amen, Hallelu-iah. 5 Then a voyce came out of the throne, saying, Prayse our God, all ye his seruants, and ye that feare him, both small and great. 6 And I heard like a voyce of a great multitude, and as the voyce of many waters, and as the voyce of strong thundrings, saying, Hallelu-iah: for the Lord that God that almightie God hath reigned. 7 Let vs be glad and reioyce, and giue glory to him: for the marriage of that Lambe is come, and his wife hath made her selfe ready.
• Isa 51:9-9 : 9 Rise vp, rise vp, and put on strength, O arme of the Lorde: rise vp as in the olde time in the generations of the worlde. Art not thou the same, that hath cutte Rahab, and wounded the dragon? 10 Art not thou the same, which hath dried the Sea, euen the waters of the great deepe, making the depth of the Sea a way for the redeemed to passe ouer? 11 Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall returne, and come with ioy vnto Zion, and euerlasting ioy shalbe vpon their head: they shall obtaine ioy, and gladnesse: and sorow and mourning shall flee away.
• Ps 18:50 : 50 Great deliuerances giueth hee vnto his King, and sheweth mercie to his anoynted, euen to Dauid, and to his seede for euer.
• Ps 31:19 : 19 Howe great is thy goodnesse, which thou hast layde vp for them, that feare thee! and done to them, that trust in thee, euen before the sonnes of men!
• Ps 66:5-6 : 5 Come and beholde the workes of God: he is terrible in his doing towarde the sonnes of men. 6 He hath turned the Sea into drie land: they passe through the riuer on foote: there did we reioyce in him.
• Ps 68:7-8 : 7 O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people: when thou wentest through the wildernesse, (Selah) 8 The earth shooke, and the heauens dropped at the presence of this God: euen Sinai was moued at the presence of God, euen the God of Israel.
• Ps 68:22 : 22 The Lord hath sayde, I will bring my people againe from Bashan: I will bring them againe from the depths of the Sea:
• Isa 11:11-16 : 11 And in the same day shall the Lord stretche out his hand againe the second time, to possesse the remnant of his people, (which shalbe left) of Asshur, and of Egypt, & of Pathros, and of Ethiopia, and of Elam, and of Shinear, and of Hamath, and of the yles of the sea. 12 And he shall set vp a signe to the nations, and assemble the dispersed of Israel, and gather the scattered of Iudah from the foure corners of the worlde. 13 The hatred also of Ephraim shall depart, and the aduersaries of Iudah shalbe cut off: Ephraim shall not enuie Iudah, neither shall Iudah vexe Ephraim: 14 But they shall flee vpon the shoulders of the Philistims toward the West: they shall spoyle them of the East together: Edom and Moab shall be the stretching out of their hands, and the children of Ammon in their obedience. 15 The Lorde also shall vtterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptians sea, and with his mightie winde shall lift vp his hand ouer the riuer, and shall smite him in his seuen streames, and cause men to walke therein with shooes. 16 And there shalbe a path to the remnant of his people, which are left of Asshur, like as it was vnto Israel in the day that he came vp out of the land of Egypt.
• Isa 12:4-6 : 4 And ye shall say in that day, Prayse the Lord: call vpon his Name: declare his workes among the people: make mention of them, for his Name is exalted. 5 Sing vnto the Lorde, for he hath done excellent things: this is knowen in all the worlde. 6 Crie out, and shoute, O inhabitant of Zion: for great is ye holy one of Israel in the middes of thee.
• Isa 25:9 : 9 And in that day shall men say, Loe, this is our God: we haue waited for him, and he wil saue vs. This is the Lorde, we haue waited for him: we will reioyce and be ioyfull in his saluation.
• Isa 52:9-9 : 9 O ye desolate places of Ierusalem, bee glad and reioyce together: for the Lorde hath comforted his people: he hath redeemed Ierusalem. 10 The Lorde hath made bare his holy arme in the sight of all the Gentiles, and all the endes of the earth shall see the saluation of our God.
• Isa 66:14 : 14 And when ye see this, your hearts shall reioyce, and your bones shall flourish like an herbe: and the hand of the Lord shall be knowen among his seruants, and his indignation against his enemies.
• Luke 1:46 : 46 Then Marie sayde, My soule magnifieth the Lorde,
• Luke 1:49 : 49 Because hee that is mightie, hath done for me great things, and holy is his Name.
• Eph 1:18-22 : 18 That the eyes of your vnderstanding may be lightened, that ye may knowe what the hope is of his calling, and what the riches of his glorious inheritance is in the Saints, 19 And what is the exceeding greatnesse of his power toward vs, which beleeue, according to the working of his mightie power, 20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his right hand in the heauenly places, 21 Farre aboue al principalitie, and power, and might, and domination, and euery Name, that is named, not in this world only, but also in that that is to come, 22 And hath made all things subiect vnder his feete, and hath giuen him ouer all things to be the head to the Church,
• Rev 12:10 : 10 Then I heard a loude voyce in heauen, saying, Now is saluation, and strength, and the kingdome of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast downe, which accused them before our God day and night.
• Ezra 7:27-28 : 27 Blessed be the Lorde God of our fathers, which so hath put in the Kings heart, to beautifie the house of the Lord that is in Ierusalem, 28 And hath enclined mercy toward me, before the King and his counsellers, and before all the Kings mightie Princes: and I was comforted by the hand of the Lord my God which was vpon me, and I gathered the chiefe of Israel to goe vp with me.