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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Psalms 126:1 - 126:1
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Psa 126:1-6. To praise for God’s favor to His people is added a prayer for its continued manifestation.
When the Lord, etc. - 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; Psa 14:7; Pro 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 (Deu 30:2, Deu 30:3).