Psalms 126:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Restore our captives, O LORD, like streams in the Negev.”
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BSBPD
“Restore our captives, O LORD, like streams in the Negev.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as the streams in the south.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Turn again our captivity, O Jehovah, As the streams in the South.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Turn again, O Jehovah, <FI>to<Fi> our captivity, As streams in the south.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 126:4 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Joshua 3:16the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.
- Psalms 85:4Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put away Your displeasure toward us.
- Psalms 126:1When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.
- Isaiah 35:6Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
- Isaiah 41:18I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.
- Isaiah 43:19Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
- Jeremiah 29:14I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the LORD. I will restore you to the place from which I sent you into exile.”
- Jeremiah 30:3For behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will restore from captivity My people Israel and Judah, declares the LORD. I will restore them to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.’”
- Hosea 1:11Then the people of Judah and of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint for themselves one leader, and will go up out of the land. For great will be the day of Jezreel.
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