Discovery BoxPsalms 102:13 
Context102:13 You will rise up and have compassion on Zion. 1
For it is time to have mercy on her,
for the appointed time has come.
Psalms 126:2
Context126:2 At that time we laughed loudly
and shouted for joy. 2
At that time the nations said, 3
“The Lord has accomplished great things for these people.”
1 tn The imperfect verbal forms are understood as expressing the psalmist’s confidence in God’s intervention. Another option is to take them as expressing the psalmist’s request or wish, “You, rise up and have compassion!”
2 tn Heb “then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with a shout.”
3 tn Heb “they said among the nations.”
