Verse 1

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

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?"