Psalms 126:1

¹¹“Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, when I restore the fortunes of my people.

¹“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

¹LORD, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.

⁸Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together. They will return as a great company. ⁹They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn. ¹⁰“Hear the LORD’s word, you nations, and declare it in the distant islands. Say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.’

¹In my distress, I cried to the LORD. He answered me.

⁹And he went out and followed him. He didn’t know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.

¹I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

⁶Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

¹Those who trust in the LORD are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

¹If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, let Israel now say,