Psalms 126

1 A song of ascents. When the Lord turned the fortunes of Zion, we were like dreamers.

2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, our tongue with glad shouts; then among the nations they said, ‘The Lord has dealt greatly with them.’

3 The Lord had dealt greatly with us, and we were rejoicing.

4 Turn our fortunes, O Lord, as the streams in the Negreb.

5 They who sow in tears shall reap with glad shouts.

6 Forth they fare, with their burden of seed, and they weep as they go. But home, home, with glad shouts they shall come with their arms full of sheaves.