{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa126.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa126.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa126.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nWhen 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.\nturned 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 30:2-3).\nAll did not return at once; hence the prayer for repeated favors.\nas the streams in the south--or, the torrents in the desert south of Judea, dependent on rain (Jos 15:9), reappearing after dry seasons (compare Job 6:15; Psa 68:9). The point of comparison is joy at the reappearing of what has been so painfully missed.\nAs 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, Ezr 6:16, Ezr 6:22).\nHe 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 (Isa 35:10).\nprecious seed--rather, seed to be drawn from the seed box for sowing; literally, \"seed-draught.\" Compare on this Psalm, Jer 31:9, &c.","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 126","type":"page"}