A Prayer for Restoration
Lamentations 5:21
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,
- KJV
- Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
- WEB
- Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old.
- ASV
- Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.
- LSV
- Turn us back, O YHWH, to You, || And we turn back, renew our days as of old.
- YLT
- Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.
- DBY
- Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
- DRC
- Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.
- GNV
- Turne thou vs vnto thee, O Lord, and we shalbe turned: renue our dayes as of olde.
- JPS
- Turn Thou us unto Thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
- LXXE
- Turn us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.
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- Written (Ketiv): וְנָשׁוּב (“so we may return”). Read aloud (Qere): וְֽנָשׁ֔וּבָה (“so let us return”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads וְֽנָשׁ֔וּבָ; read aloud (Qere) reads וְֽנָשׁ֔וּבָה (“so let us return”).
Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- הֲשִׁיבֵ֨נוּ יְהוָ֤ה ׀ אֵלֶ֨יךָ֙ ונשוב חַדֵּ֥שׁ יָמֵ֖ינוּ כְּקֶֽדֶם׃Read aloud as (qere): וְֽנָשׁ֔וּבָה
- LXX-Br
- Ἐπίστρεψον ἡμᾶς Κύριε πρὸς σὲ, καὶ ἐπιστραφησόμεθα· καὶ ἀνακαίνισον ἡμέρας ἡμῶν καθὼς ἔμπροσθεν.
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- 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 85:4Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put away Your displeasure toward us.
- 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.
- Psalms 80:19Restore us, O LORD God of Hosts; cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
- Zechariah 8:3–6This 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.” This is what the LORD…
- 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.
- Ezekiel 11:19–20And 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, so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them.…
- Ezekiel 36:25–27I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of…
- 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 32:39–40I 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. I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from…
- 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!
- 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…
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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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