Psalm 126

New King James Version

A Joyful Return to Zion

A Song of Ascents.

126 When ^(A)the Lord brought back ^[a]the captivity of Zion,
^(B)We were like those who dream.
²Then ^(C)our mouth was filled with laughter,
And our tongue with singing.
Then they said among the ^[b]nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”
³The Lord has done great things for us,
And we are glad.

⁴Bring back our captivity, O Lord,
As the streams in the South.

⁵^(D)Those who sow in tears
Shall reap in joy.
⁶He who continually goes ^[c]forth weeping,
Bearing ^[d]seed for sowing,
Shall doubtless come again ^[e]with ^(E)rejoicing,
Bringing his sheaves with him.

Footnotes

Psalm 126:1 Those of the captivity
Psalm 126:2 Gentiles
Psalm 126:6 to and fro
Psalm 126:6 Lit. a bag of seed for sowing
Psalm 126:6 with shouts of joy

Habakkuk 2:1-5

New King James Version

The Just Shall Live by Faith

2 I will ^(A)stand my watch
And set myself on the rampart,
And watch to see what He will say to me,
And what I will answer when I am corrected.

The Just Live by Faith

²Then the Lord answered me and said:

^(B)“Write the vision
And make it plain on tablets,
That he may run who reads it.
³For ^(C)the vision is yet for an appointed time;
But at the end it will speak, and it will ^(D)not lie.
Though it tarries, ^(E)wait for it;
Because it will ^(F)surely come,
It will not tarry.

⁴“Behold the proud,
His soul is not upright in him;
But the ^(G)just shall live by his faith.

Woe to the Wicked

⁵“Indeed, because he transgresses by wine,
He is a proud man,
And he does not stay at home.
Because he ^(H)enlarges his desire as ^[a]hell,
And he is like death, and cannot be satisfied,
He gathers to himself all nations
And heaps up for himself all peoples.

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Footnotes

Habakkuk 2:5 Or Sheol

Philippians 3:7-11

New King James Version

⁷But ^(A)what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. ⁸Yet indeed I also count all things loss ^(B)for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ ⁹and be found in Him, not having ^(C)my own righteousness, which is from the law, but ^(D)that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; ¹⁰that I may know Him and the ^(E)power of His resurrection, and ^(F)the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, ¹¹if, by any means, I may ^(G)attain^[a] to the resurrection from the dead.