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Psalms 126:4

Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.

KJV

Sicut sagittæ in manu potentis, ita filii excussorum.

Vulgate

ὡσεὶ βέλη ἐν χειρὶ δυνατοῦ, οὕτως οἱ υἱοὶ τῶν ἐκτετιναγμένων.

LXX

Turn again our captivity, O Jehovah, As the streams in the South.

ASV

שׁוּבָ֣/ה יְ֭הוָה אֶת שבות/נו שְׁבִיתֵ֑/נוּ כַּ/אֲפִיקִ֥ים בַּ/נֶּֽגֶב

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲפִיקִ֣ים
'pyqym
noun · 18×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
ה
h
noun · 111×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
שׁ֣וּב
shvb
verb · 1058×
שְׁב֣וּת
shbvt
noun · 39×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Hos 1:11 — Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
  • Isa 35:6 — Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
  • Isa 41:18 — I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
  • Isa 43:19 — Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
  • Jer 29:14 — And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I wi
  • Jer 33:7 — And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
  • Jer 50:4 — In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
  • Job 42:10 — And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
  • Josh 3:16 — That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea,
  • Ps 85:4 — Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
  • Ps 126:1 — When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.