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.
Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing - as Job's, notwithstanding his suffering for a time, was destined at last to be (Job 8:21). The future forms, in the Hebrew here, 'Then shall our mouth be filled ... then shall they say,' etc., are used in allusion to the future in Job; or else, as De Burgh thinks, they refer to the fulfillment, yet future and in the last days.
Then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them - from Joel 2:21.