Lamentations 5:21
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,”
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BSBPD
“Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Lamentations 5:21 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 18:37Answer me, O LORD! Answer me, so that this people will know that You, the LORD, are God, and that You have turned their hearts back again.”
- Psalms 80:3Restore us, O God, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
- Psalms 80:7Restore us, O God of Hosts, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
- Psalms 80:19Restore us, O LORD God of Hosts; cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
- Psalms 85:4Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put away Your displeasure toward us.
- Jeremiah 30:20Their children will be as in days of old, and their congregation will be established before Me; and I will punish all their oppressors.
- Jeremiah 31:4Again I will build you, and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out in joyful dancing.
- Jeremiah 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.
- Jeremiah 31:23This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “When I restore them from captivity, they will once again speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities: ‘May the LORD bless you, O righteous dwelling place, O holy mountain.’
- Jeremiah 32:39I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.
- Jeremiah 33:10This is what the LORD says: In this place you say is a wasteland without man or beast, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted—inhabited by neither man nor beast—there will be heard again
- Jeremiah 33:13In the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev, in the land of Benjamin and the cities surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them, says the LORD.
- Ezekiel 11:19And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,
- Ezekiel 36:25I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
- Ezekiel 36:37This is what the Lord GOD says: Once again I will hear the plea of the house of Israel and do for them this: I will multiply their people like a flock.
- Habakkuk 3:2O LORD, I have heard the report of You; I stand in awe, O LORD, of Your deeds. Revive them in these years; make them known in these years. In Your wrath, remember mercy!
- Zechariah 8:3This is what the LORD says: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of Hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.”
- Malachi 3:4Then the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will please the LORD, as in days of old and years gone by.
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