When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.
Psalm 126:4 - Revised Standard Version Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like the watercourses in the Negeb! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Turn again our captivity, O LORD, As the streams in the south. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Turn to freedom our captivity and restore our fortunes, O Lord, as the streams in the South (the Negeb) [are restored by the torrents]. American Standard Version (1901) Turn again our captivity, O Jehovah, As the streams in the South. Common English Bible LORD, change our circumstances for the better, like dry streams in the desert waste! Catholic Public Domain Version Like arrows in the hand of the powerful, so are the sons of those who have been cast out. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version As arrows in the hand of the mighty, so the children of them that have been shaken. |
When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.
Restore us again, O God of our salvation, and put away thy indignation toward us!
then shall the lame man leap like a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing for joy. For waters shall break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert;
I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
For behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when I will restore the fortunes of my people, Israel and Judah, says the Lord, and I will bring them back to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they shall take possession of it.”
And the people of Judah and the people of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint for themselves one head; and they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
the waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap far off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off; and the people passed over opposite Jericho.