✧A Song of degrees. When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. ✧2Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them. ✧3The LORD hath done great things for us; [whereof] we are glad. ✧4Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south. ✧5They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. ✧6He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves [with him].