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<p id="Chapter126" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>PSALM 126
<p id="Ps126_1"><a onclick="return mV('Psa',126,'1-6');">Psa 126:1-6</a>.
<p>To praise for God's favor to His people is added a prayer for its continued manifestation.
<p><b>1-3. When the Lord,</b> etc.&#8212;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.
<br><br><b>turned again the captivity</b>&#8212;that is, restored from it (<a onclick="return mV('Job',39,12);">Job 39:12</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',14,7);">Psa 14:7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Pro',12,14);">Pro 12:14</a>). HENGSTENBERG translates: "When the Lord turned Himself to the turning of Zion" (see <i>Margin</i>), God returns to His people when they return to Him (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',30,2,3);">Deu 30:2-3</a>).
<p id="Ps126_4"><b>4.</b> All did not return at once; hence the prayer for repeated favors.
<br><br><b>as the streams in the south</b>&#8212;or, the torrents in the desert south of Judea, dependent on rain (<a onclick="return mV('Jos',15,9);">Jos 15:9</a>), reappearing after dry seasons (compare <a onclick="return mV('Job',6,15);">Job 6:15</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',68,9);">Psa 68:9</a>). The point of comparison is joy at the reappearing of what has been so painfully missed.
<p id="Ps126_5"><b>5, 6.</b> 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, <a onclick="return mV('Ezr',6,16,22);">Ezr 6:16, 22</a>).
<p id="Ps126_6"><b>6. He that goeth forth</b>&#8212;literally, better, "He goes&#8212;he comes, he comes," etc. The repetition implies there is no end of weeping here, as there shall be no end of joy hereafter (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',35,10);">Isa 35:10</a>).
<br><br><b>precious seed</b>&#8212;rather, seed to be drawn from the seed box for sowing; literally, "seed-draught." Compare on this Psalm, <a onclick="return mV('Jer',31,9);">Jer 31:9</a>, etc.
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