Zion’s Captives Restored
Psalms 126:4
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Restore our captives, O LORD, like streams in the Negev.Or Restore our fortunes
- KJV
- Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.
- WEB
- Restore our fortunes again, Yahweh, like the streams in the Negev.
- ASV
- Turn again our captivity, O Jehovah, As the streams in the South.
- LSV
- Turn again, O YHWH, [to] our captivity, || As streams in the south.
- YLT
- Turn again, O Jehovah, [to] our captivity, As streams in the south.
- DBY
- Turn our captivity, O Jehovah, as the streams in the south.
- DRC125:4
- Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as a stream in the south.
- GNV
- O Lord, bring againe our captiuitie, as the riuers in the South.
- JPS
- Turn our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the dry land.
- LXXE125:4
- Turn, O Lord, our captivity, as the streams in the south.
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Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (2)
- Leningrad Codex reads שְׁבִותֵ֑נוּ; read aloud (Qere) reads שְׁבִיתֵ֑נוּ (“captivity our”).
- Written (Ketiv): שְׁבוּתֵנוּ. Read aloud (Qere): שְׁבִיתֵ֑נוּ (“captivity our”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- שׁוּבָ֣ה יְ֭הוָה אֶת־שבותנו כַּאֲפִיקִ֥ים בַּנֶּֽגֶב׃Read aloud as (qere): שְׁבִיתֵ֑נוּ
- LXX-Br125:4
- Ἐπίστρεψον, Κύριε, τὴν αἰχμαλωσίαν ἡμῶν ὡς χειμάῤῥους ἐν τῷ Νότῳ.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 85:4Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put away Your displeasure toward us.
- Psalms 126:1When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.
- Isaiah 41:18I 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.
- 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.
- Isaiah 35:6Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
- Joshua 3:16the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed…
- Hosea 1:11Then the people of Judah and of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint for themselves one leader, and will go up out of the land. For great will be the day of Jezreel.
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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 125:4 in some Bibles
- 126:4 in most Bibles