A song of ascents
126:Title See Ps 120. Though very brief this psalm gives us a song of joy (vs 1-3), a prayer (v 4), and a promise (vs 5,6).⚜
126
📚When the LORD brought back the captives of Zion 📖,
we were like those who dream.
2 📚Then our mouth was filled
with laughter,
and our tongue with singing;
then they said among
the nations,
“The LORD has done great things
for them”.
3 📚The LORD has done
great things for us;
we are glad.
126:3 See Ps 71:19; 106:21; Deut 10:21; 1 Sam 12:24; Joel 2:21, 26. Let us meditate on the great things the Lord Jesus has done for us.⚜
4 📚Bring back our captives 📖,
O LORD,
like the streams in the South.
5 📚Those who sow in tears
will reap in joy.
6 📚He who goes out weeping,
bearing precious seed,
will doubtless come again
with rejoicing,
bringing his sheaves with him.
126:5-6 These verses naturally follow the prayer for restoration. Those delivered from bondage are the ones who will labour in the gospel fields and reap a harvest for the Lord. The tears and weeping indicate the great earnestness of God’s servants. They weep because of the opposition of sinners, the hardness of men’s hearts, the danger that faces lost men. They may be sad too because of their own weakness and ineffectiveness and failure. They weep for love of Christ and compassion for lost men. Such people will certainly reap a harvest. Joy will be theirs in the end – Ps 119:136; Isa 22:4; Jer 9:1; 13:17; 14:17; Luke 19:41; Acts 20:19, 31; 1 Cor 15:58.⚜