Lamentations 5:21

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Lamentations 5:19–22 · Berean Standard Bible

19 You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.

20 Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?

21 Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,

22 unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

1 Kings 18:37

Answer 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 80:3

Restore us, O God, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.

Psalms 80:7

Restore us, O God of Hosts, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.

Psalms 80:19

Restore us, O LORD God of Hosts; cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.

Psalms 85:4

Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put away Your displeasure toward us.

Jeremiah 31:18

I 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 32:39

I 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 32:40

I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.

Ezekiel 11:19

And 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 11:20

so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 36:25

I 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 36:26

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

Ezekiel 36:27

And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.

Ezekiel 36:37

This 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 3:2

O 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 31:4

Again 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 31:23

This 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 31:24

And Judah and all its cities will dwell together in the land, the farmers and those who move with the flocks,

Jeremiah 31:25

for I will refresh the weary soul and replenish all who are weak.”

Jeremiah 33:10

This 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 33:13

In 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.

Zechariah 8:3

This 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.”

Zechariah 8:4

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Old men and old women will again sit along the streets of Jerusalem, each with a staff in hand because of great age.

Zechariah 8:5

And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing there.”

Zechariah 8:6

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “If this is impossible in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be impossible in My eyes?” declares the LORD of Hosts.

Malachi 3:4

Then the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will please the LORD, as in days of old and years gone by.