Lamentations 5:21

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.

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  • Ps 80:3 : 3 O God, cause us to turn back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved.
  • Jer 31:18 : 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, `Thou hast chastised me, And I am chastised, as a heifer not taught, Turn me back, and I turn back, For thou `art' Jehovah my God.
  • Ps 80:7 : 7 God of Hosts, turn us back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved.
  • Ps 80:19 : 19 O Jehovah, God of Hosts, turn us back, Cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved!
  • Ps 85:4 : 4 Turn back `to' us, O God of our salvation, And make void Thine anger with us.
  • Jer 31:4 : 4 Again do I build thee, And thou hast been built, O virgin of Israel, Again thou puttest on thy tabrets, And hast gone out in the chorus of the playful.
  • Jer 31:23-25 : 23 Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Still they say this word in the land of Judah, And in its cities, In My turning back `to' their captivity, Jehovah doth bless thee, habitation of righteousness, Mountain of holiness. 24 And dwelt in Judah have husbandmen, and in all its cities together, And they have journeyed in order. 25 For I have satiated the weary soul, And every grieved soul I have filled.'
  • 1 Kgs 18:37 : 37 answer me, O Jehovah, answer me, and this people doth know that Thou `art' Jehovah God; and Thou hast turned their heart backward.'
  • Jer 33:10 : 10 Thus said Jehovah: Again heard in this place of which ye are saying, Waste it `is', without man and without beast, In cities of Judah, and in streets of Jerusalem, That are desolated, without man, And without inhabitant, and without beast,
  • Jer 33:13 : 13 In the cities of the hill-country, In the cities of the low country, And in the cities of the south, And in the land of Benjamin, And in the suburbs of Jerusalem, And in the cities of Judah, Again doth the flock pass by under the hands of the numberer, said Jehovah.
  • Ezek 11:19-20 : 19 And I have given to them one heart, And a new spirit I do give in your midst, And I have turned the heart of stone out of their flesh, And I have given to them a heart of flesh. 20 So that in My statutes they walk, And My judgments they keep, and have done them, And they have been to me for a people, And I am to them for God.
  • Ezek 36:25-27 : 25 And I have sprinkled over you clean water, And ye have been clean; From all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, I do cleanse you. 26 And I have given to you a new heart, And a new spirit I give in your midst, And I have turned aside the heart of stone out of your flesh, And I have given to you a heart of flesh. 27 And My Spirit I give in your midst, And I have done this, so that in My statutes ye walk, And My judgments ye keep, and have done them.
  • Ezek 36:37 : 37 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Yet this I am required, By the house of Israel to do to them, I multiply them as a flock of men,
  • Hab 3:2 : 2 O Jehovah, I heard thy report, I have been afraid, O Jehovah, Thy work! in midst of years revive it, In the midst of years Thou makest known In anger Thou dost remember mercy.
  • Zech 8:3-6 : 3 Thus said Jehovah: I have turned back unto Zion, And I have dwelt in the midst of Jerusalem, And Jerusalem hath been called `The city of truth,' And the mountain of Jehovah of Hosts, `The holy mountain.' 4 Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Again dwell do old men and old women, In broad places of Jerusalem, And each his staff in his hand, Because of abundance of days. 5 And broad places of the city are full of boys and girls, Playing in its broad places. 6 Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Surely it is wonderful in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, Also in Mine eyes it is wonderful, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts.
  • Mal 3:4 : 4 And sweet to Jehovah hath been the present of Judah and Jerusalem, As in days of old, and as in former years.
  • Jer 32:39-40 : 39 and I have given to them one heart, and one way, to fear Me all the days, for good to them, and to their sons after them: 40 and I have made for them a covenant age-during, in that I turn not back from after them for My doing them good, and My fear I put in their heart, so as not to turn aside from me;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 20Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!

  • 22For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us -- exceedingly?

  • Ps 85:4-7
    4 verses
    81%

    4Turn back `to' us, O God of our salvation, And make void Thine anger with us.

    5To the age art Thou angry against us? Dost Thou draw out Thine anger To generation and generation?

    6Dost Thou not turn back? Thou revivest us, And Thy people do rejoice in Thee.

    7Show us, O Jehovah, thy kindness, And Thy salvation Thou dost give to us.

  • Ps 80:3-4
    2 verses
    81%

    3O God, cause us to turn back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved.

    4Jehovah, God of Hosts, till when? Thou hast burned against the prayer of Thy people.

  • Ps 80:18-19
    2 verses
    80%

    18And we do not go back from Thee, Thou dost revive us, and in Thy name we call.

    19O Jehovah, God of Hosts, turn us back, Cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved!

  • 7God of Hosts, turn us back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved.

  • Ps 90:12-15
    4 verses
    79%

    12To number our days aright let `us' know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.

    13Turn back, O Jehovah, till when? And repent concerning Thy servants.

    14Satisfy us at morn `with' Thy kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days.

    15Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein Thou hast afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.

  • 1To the Overseer. -- `Concerning the Lily of Testimony,' a secret treasure of David, to teach, in his striving with Aram-Naharaim, and with Aram-Zobah, and Joab turneth back and smiteth Edom in the valley of Salt -- twelve thousand. O God, Thou hadst cast us off, Thou hadst broken us -- hadst been angry! -- Thou dost turn back to us.

  • Lam 3:40-41
    2 verses
    79%

    40We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.

    41We lift up our heart on the hands unto God in the heavens.

  • 4Turn again, O Jehovah, `to' our captivity, As streams in the south.

  • 6Turn back to Him from whom sons of Israel Have deepened apostacy.

  • Jer 3:21-22
    2 verses
    76%

    21A voice on high places is heard -- weeping, Supplications of the sons of Israel, For they have made perverse their way, They have forgotten Jehovah their God.

    22Turn back, O backsliding sons, I cause your backslidings to cease. -- Behold us, we have come to Thee, For Thou `art' Jehovah our God.

  • 1Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.

  • 17Why causest Thou us to wander, O Jehovah, from Thy ways? Thou hardenest our heart from Thy fear, Turn back for Thy servants' sake, The tribes of Thine inheritance.

  • Ps 44:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    17All this met us, and we did not forget Thee, Nor have we dealt falsely in Thy covenant.

    18We turn not backward our heart, Nor turn aside doth our step from Thy path.

  • 5`Turn back, I pray you, each from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell on the ground that Jehovah hath given to you and to your fathers from age unto age,

  • 1`Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite, and He bindeth us up.

  • Jer 14:20-21
    2 verses
    75%

    20We have known, O Jehovah, our wickedness, The iniquity of our fathers, For we have sinned against Thee.

    21Do not despise, for Thy name's sake, Dishonour not the throne of Thine honour, Remember, break not Thy covenant with us.

  • 7Even from the days of your fathers Ye have turned aside from My statutes, And ye have not taken heed. Turn back unto Me, and I turn back to you, Said Jehovah of Hosts. And ye have said, `In what do we turn back?'

  • 3And thou hast said unto them, Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, turn back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And I turn back unto you, said Jehovah of Hosts.

  • 8Remember not for us the iniquities of forefathers, Haste, let Thy mercies go before us, For we have been very weak.

  • 9for in your turning back unto Jehovah, your brethren and your sons have mercies before their captors, even to return to this land, for gracious and merciful `is' Jehovah your God, and He doth not turn aside the face from you, if ye turn back unto Him.'

  • 3Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men.

  • 10Thou causest us to turn backward from an adversary, And those hating us, Have spoiled for themselves.

  • 12And also now -- an affirmation of Jehovah, Turn ye back unto Me with all your heart, And with fasting, and with weeping, And with lamentation.

  • 6Remember Thy mercies, O Jehovah, And Thy kindnesses, for from the age `are' they.

  • 23Stir up -- why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.

  • 14God of Hosts, turn back, we beseech Thee, Look from heaven, and see, and inspect this vine,

  • 30in distress `being' to thee, and all these things have found thee, in the latter end of the days, and thou hast turned back unto Jehovah thy God, and hast hearkened to His voice;

  • Hos 14:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1Turn back, O Israel, unto Jehovah thy God, For thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity.

    2Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah, Say ye unto Him: `Take away all iniquity, and give good, And we do render the fruit of our lips.

  • 13as it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil hath come upon us, and we have not appeased the face of Jehovah our God to turn back from our iniquities, and to act wisely in Thy truth.

  • 2O Jehovah, favour us, for thee we have waited, Be their arm, in the mornings, Yea, our salvation in time of adversity.

  • 37and they have turned `it' back unto their heart in the land whither they have been taken captive, and have turned back, and made supplication unto Thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have done wickedly;

  • 1If thou dost turn back, O Israel, An affirmation of Jehovah, unto Me turn back, And if thou dost turn aside Thine abominations from My face, Then thou dost not bemoan.

  • 18I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, `Thou hast chastised me, And I am chastised, as a heifer not taught, Turn me back, and I turn back, For thou `art' Jehovah my God.

  • 16Turn Thou unto me, and favour me, For lonely and afflicted `am' I.

  • 9Be not wroth, O Jehovah, very sore, Nor for ever remember iniquity, Lo, look attentively, we beseech Thee, Thy people `are' we all.