Psalms 126:4
Restore our captives, O LORD, like streams in the Negev.
BSB
ASV
Turn again our captivity, O Jehovah, As the streams in the South.
KJV
Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as the streams in the south.
Turn again our captivity, O Lord,.... This prayer for the return of the captivity shows that it was not as yet: though some think that this is a petition of those that were returned from captivity, for those of their brethren that stayed behind; who, enjoying the sweets of their liberty, pray for their brethren to come and share with them, that so the mercy and blessing might be completed.
The point of comparison is joy at the reappearing of what has been so painfully missed. 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.
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Isaiah 43:19Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
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You have heard these things; look at them all. Will you not acknowledge them? From now on I will tell you of new things, hidden things unknown to you.
Behold, the former things have happened, and now I declare new things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
And the One seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Then He said, “Write this down, for these words are faithful and true.”
I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.
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Psalms 126:1When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.
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Also for you, O Judah, a harvest is appointed, when I restore My people from captivity.
“Yes, in those days and at that time, when I restore Judah and Jerusalem from captivity,
Behold, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, including the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor. They…