Psalms 126:1

World English Bible (2000)

When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

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Referenced Verses

  • Hos 6:11 : 11 "Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, when I restore the fortunes of my people.
  • Ps 85:1 : 1 Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.
  • Jer 31:8-9 : 8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, [and] with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together: a great company shall they return here. 9 They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. 10 Hear the word of Yahweh, you nations, and declare it in the islands afar off; and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as shepherd does his flock.
  • Ps 120:1 : 1 In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.
  • Joel 3:1 : 1 "For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
  • Acts 12:9 : 9 And he went out and followed him. He didn't know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.
  • Ps 121:1 : 1 I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?
  • Ps 122:1 : 1 I was glad when they said to me, "Let's go to Yahweh's house!"
  • Ps 123:1 : 1 To you I do lift up my eyes, you who sit in the heavens.
  • Ps 124:1 : 1 If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,
  • Ps 125:1 : 1 Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can't be moved, but remains forever.
  • Ps 53:6 : 6 Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, "Isn't David hiding himself among us?"
  • Ezra 1:1-9 : 1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing, saying, 2 "Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, 'Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. 3 Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Yahweh, the God of Israel (he is God), which is in Jerusalem. 4 Whoever is left, in any place where he lives, let the men of his place help him with silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, besides the freewill offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.'" 5 Then the heads of fathers' [houses] of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, even all whose spirit God had stirred to go up rose up to build the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem. 6 All those who were around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered. 7 Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of Yahweh, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods; 8 even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah. 9 This is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, one thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives, 10 thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels one thousand. 11 All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when they of the captivity were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
  • Job 9:16 : 16 If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn't believe that he listened to my voice.
  • Job 42:10 : 10 Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.
  • Acts 12:14-16 : 14 When she recognized Peter's voice, she didn't open the gate for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate. 15 They said to her, "You are crazy!" But she insisted that it was so. They said, "It is his angel." 16 But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed.
  • Mark 16:11 : 11 When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, they disbelieved.
  • Luke 24:11 : 11 These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn't believe them.
  • Luke 24:41 : 41 While they still didn't believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"

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    2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, "Yahweh has done great things for them."

    3 Yahweh has done great things for us, and we are glad.

    4 Restore our fortunes again, Yahweh, like the streams in the Negev.

    5 Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

  • Ps 137:1-4
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    1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

    2 On the willows in its midst, we hung up our harps.

    3 For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"

    4 How can we sing Yahweh's song in a foreign land?

  • Ps 14:7
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    7 Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When Yahweh restores the fortunes of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. A Psalm by David.

  • Ps 53:6
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    6 Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, "Isn't David hiding himself among us?"

  • Ps 85:1
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    1 Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.

  • Isa 52:8-9
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    8 The voice of your watchmen! they lift up the voice, together do they sing; for they shall see eye to eye, when Yahweh returns to Zion.

    9 Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.

  • Isa 35:10
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    10 The Yahweh's ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away."

  • Ps 122:1-2
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    1 I was glad when they said to me, "Let's go to Yahweh's house!"

    2 Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem;

  • Isa 51:11
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    11 The ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

  • Joel 3:1
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    1 "For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

  • Lam 5:21
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    21 Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we shall be turned. Renew our days as of old.

  • Ps 124:1-3
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    1 If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,

    2 if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose up against us;

    3 then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

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    16 For Yahweh has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.

  • Ps 80:18-19
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    18 So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.

    19 Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved. For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph.

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    7 Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

  • Ps 80:3
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    3 Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

  • Ezra 9:9
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    9 For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

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    10 Yahweh has brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.

  • Zeph 3:20
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    20 At that time will I bring you in, and at that time will I gather you; for I will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes, says Yahweh.

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    2 Yahweh builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.

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    3 For, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will turn again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says Yahweh; and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

  • Hos 6:11
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    11 "Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, when I restore the fortunes of my people.

  • Ps 129:5
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    5 Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

  • Deut 30:3
    68%

    3 that then Yahweh your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples, where Yahweh your God has scattered you.

  • Ps 73:20
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    20 As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

  • Jer 30:18
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    18 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will turn again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places; and the city shall be built on its own hill, and the palace shall be inhabited in its own way.

  • Jer 31:26
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    26 On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

  • Jer 31:6
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    6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise, and let us go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.

  • Jer 9:19
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    19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.

  • Ps 124:5-7
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    67%

    5 then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

    6 Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.

    7 Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler's snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

  • Ps 118:23
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    23 This is Yahweh's doing. It is marvelous in our eyes.

  • Isa 29:8
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    8 It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn't satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that.

  • Ps 85:6
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    6 Won't you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?

  • Jer 31:23
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    23 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Yet again shall they use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I shall bring again their captivity: Yahweh bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness.

  • Lam 5:1
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    1 Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.

  • Ps 106:47
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    47 Save us, Yahweh, our God, gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise!

  • Ps 60:1
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    1 God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.