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title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible -  Psalms 126"
description: "PSALM 126   :-. To praise for God"
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PSALM 126

. To praise for God's favor to His people is added a
prayer for its continued manifestation.

**1-3. When the Lord,** c.—The joy
of those returned from Babylon was ecstatic, and elicited the
admiration even of the heathen, as illustrating God's great power and
goodness.
**turned again the
captivity**—that is, restored from it ([Job 39:12](../../../kjv/job/39/12)
[Psalms 14:7](../../../kjv/psalms/14/7); [Proverbs 12:14](../../../kjv/proverbs/12/14)).
HENGSTENBERG translates:
"When the Lord turned Himself to the turning of Zion" (see
*Margin*), God returns to His people when they return to Him
([Deuteronomy 30:2](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/30/2); [Deuteronomy 30:3](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/30/3)).

**4.** All did not return at once;
hence the prayer for repeated favors.
**as the streams in the
south**—or, the torrents in the desert south of Judea, dependent
on rain ([Joshua 15:9](../../../kjv/joshua/15/9)), reappearing
after dry seasons (compare [Job 6:15](../../../kjv/job/6/15);
[Psalms 68:9](../../../kjv/psalms/68/9)). The point of
comparison is joy at the reappearing of what has been so painfully
missed.

**5, 6.** As in husbandry the sower
may cast his seed in a dry and parched soil with desponding fears, so
those shall reap abundant fruit who toil in tears with the prayer of
faith. (Compare the history, [Ezra 6:16](../../../kjv/ezra/6/16);
[Ezra 6:22](../../../kjv/ezra/6/22)).

**6. He that goeth forth**—literally,
better, "He goes—he comes, he comes," c. The repetition
implies there is no end of weeping here, as there shall be no end of
joy hereafter ([Isaiah 35:10](../../../kjv/isaiah/35/10)).
**precious seed**—rather,
seed to be drawn from the seed box for sowing literally,
"seed-draught." Compare on this Psalm, [Isaiah 35:10](../../../kjv/isaiah/35/10), &c.

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