Psalms 126 Footnotes

126:1 Any occasion when Jerusalem was restored to a position of peace and prominence would be a time for great celebration and recognition of what the Lord had done for his people. This could have occurred after some foreign threat had diminished (e.g., 2Kg 18:9–19:36) or at the restoration of the Judeans to their homeland after the Babylonian exile. An alternate reading of the clause “we were like those who dream” occurs in the Greek OT and the Dead Sea Scrolls: “we were greatly comforted.”