Psalms 126

Tears That Have Already Become Seeds — a note on this chapter.

Which worship songs are based on Psalms 126?

  1. Psalm 126 (With Shouting Joy) — Brian Sauvé (2025) Psalms 126:1-6

    The song directly references the themes and imagery of Psalm 126, particularly the restoration of Zion and the joy that follows. It captures the essence of the psalm's celebration of God's great deeds for His people.

  2. Drawing Blood — Brian Sauvé (2023) Psalms 126:1-2

    The bridge closely reproduces the psalm's sequence of restored fortunes, renewed songs, tearful sowing, joyful reaping, and gathered sheaves.

  3. Great Things — Elevation Worship (2008) Psalms 126:2-3

    The chorus adapts the psalm's public acknowledgment of God's great deeds and the community's joyful response. Its combination of shared witness, divine accomplishment, and rejoicing makes the connection specific.

  4. Joy In The Morning — Elevation Worship & Tauren Wells (2022) Psalms 126:5

    A bridge ad-lib directly invokes the psalm’s agricultural image of tears sown now producing a future harvest of joy.

  5. Spring Is Coming — Steven Curtis Chapman (2009) Psalms 126:5-6

    The opening combines planting seed with tears of grief, closely echoing the psalm's distinctive image of tearful sowing followed by joyful harvest. The anticipation of renewed life develops that image of restoration.

  6. Kaylea’s Story: Joy Comes In The Morning (Live) — LO Worship (2025) Psalms 126:5-6

    Kaylea explicitly identifies this psalm and applies its agricultural picture of sorrowful sowing followed by a joyful harvest to grief, prayer, and renewed life.

  7. Turnaround — Brandon Lake (2023) Psalms 126:5-6

    The movement from weeping to harvest closely parallels the psalm's agricultural picture of sowing with tears and later gathering the crop with joy.

  8. Light After Darkness — Kings Kaleidoscope (2014) Psalms 126:5-6

    The image of sowing followed by gathered sheaves, alongside the movement from tears to praise and sorrow to joy, closely echoes this psalm's portrayal of restoration through a tearful sowing and joyful harvest.

  9. Delightful (The Sower Never Wastes A Tear) — Hillsong UNITED (2022) Psalms 126:5-6

    The song’s central image of a divine Sower turning tears into eventual joy closely reworks the psalm’s promise that tearful sowing will culminate in joyful reaping.

  10. Tears — Cade Thompson (2023) Psalms 126:5-6

    The agricultural picture of present tears becoming seeds that yield future joy closely paraphrases the psalm's movement from tearful sowing to joyful harvest.

  11. Pra Você Sorrir — Marcela Tais (2012) Psalms 126:5-6

    The refrain closely adapts the psalm's movement from sowing in tears to returning with joy. The combination of planting, weeping, and joyful return makes this a specific textual connection.

  12. Take the Limits Off / No Limits (Enlarge My Territory) — Israel & New Breed (2012) Psalms 126:5-6

    The closing exhortation connects tearful sowing with an anticipated season of reaping, closely adapting the psalm’s agricultural picture of sorrow giving way to joyful harvest. The supplied transcription appears to render the sowing language imperfectly.

  13. Coming Back - Live — Vertical Worship (2025) Psalms 126:5-6

    The imagery of sowing in sorrow and subsequently harvesting joy closely follows this psalm's promise of a joyful harvest after tears.

  14. Nothing Is Wasted — Jason Gray (2011) Psalms 126:5-6

    The opening verse transforms tears into seed from which joy grows, closely echoing the psalm's distinctive connection between sowing in sorrow and harvesting with joy.

Psalms 126 (King James Version)

1 When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.

2 Then 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.

3 The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.

4 Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.

5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.