1 When Jehovah brought back the captive ones of Zion, it was like a dream.2 Then our mouths were filled with laughter and our tongues with joyful songs. Then the nations said: »Jehovah has done spectacular things for them.«3 Jehovah has done spectacular things for us. We are overjoyed.4 Deliver us from captivity, O Jehovah, as you restore streams to dry riverbeds in the Negev.5 Those who cry while they plant will joyfully sing while they harvest.6 The person who goes out weeping, carrying his bag of seed, will come home singing, carrying his bundles of grain.