The Bible in Basic English BBE
Good News Translation GNT
1 <A Song of the going up.> When the Lord made a change in Zion's fate, we were like men in a dream.
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When the Lord brought us back to Jerusalem, it was like a dream!
2 Then our mouths were full of laughing, and our tongues gave a glad cry; they said among the nations, The Lord has done great things for them.
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How we laughed, how we sang for joy! Then the other nations said about us, "The Lord did great things for them."
3 The Lord has done great things for us; because of which we are glad.
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Indeed he did great things for us; how happy we were!
4 Let our fate be changed, O Lord, like the streams in the South.
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Lord, make us prosperous again, just as the rain brings water back to dry riverbeds.
5 Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy.
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Let those who wept as they planted their crops, gather the harvest with joy!
6 Though a man may go out weeping, taking his vessel of seed with him; he will come again in joy, with the corded stems of grain in his arms.
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Those who wept as they went out carrying the seed will come back singing for joy, as they bring in the harvest.
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Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.