Lamentations 5:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past.

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  • Ps 80:3 : 3 Take us back again, O God; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.
  • Jer 31:18 : 18 Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.
  • Ps 80:7 : 7 Take us back again, O God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.
  • Ps 80:19 : 19 Take us back, O Lord God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.
  • Ps 85:4 : 4 Come back to us, O God of our salvation, and be angry with us no longer.
  • Jer 31:4 : 4 I will again make new your buildings, O virgin of Israel, and you will take up your place: again you will take up your instruments of music, and go out in the dances of those who are glad.
  • Jer 31:23-25 : 23 So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Again will these words be used in the land of Judah and in its towns, when I have let their fate be changed: May the blessing of the Lord be on you, O resting-place of righteousness, O holy mountain. 24 And Judah and all its towns will be living there together; the farmers and those who go about with flocks. 25 For I have given new strength to the tired soul and to every sorrowing soul in full measure.
  • 1 Kgs 18:37 : 37 Give me an answer, O Lord, give me an answer, so that this people may see that you are God, and that you have made their hearts come back again.
  • Jer 33:10 : 10 This is what the Lord has said: There will again be sounding in this place, of which you say, It is a waste, without man and without beast; even in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem which are waste and unpeopled, without man and without beast,
  • Jer 33:13 : 13 In the towns of the hill-country, in the towns of the lowland, and in the towns of the South and in the land of Benjamin and in the country round Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah, the flocks will again go under the hand of him who is numbering them, says the Lord.
  • Ezek 11:19-20 : 19 And I will give them a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in them; and I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh: 20 So that they may be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them: and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.
  • Ezek 36:25-27 : 25 And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean. 26 And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them.
  • Ezek 36:37 : 37 This is what the Lord has said: The children of Israel will again make prayer to me for this, that I may do it for them; I will make them increased with men like a flock.
  • Hab 3:2 : 2 O Lord, word of you has come to my ears; I have seen your work, O Lord; when the years come near make it clear; in wrath keep mercy in mind.
  • Zech 8:3-6 : 3 This is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Zion, and will make my living-place in Jerusalem: and Jerusalem will be named The town of good faith; and the mountain of the Lord of armies The holy mountain. 4 This is what the Lord of armies has said: There will again be old men and old women seated in the open spaces of Jerusalem, every man with his stick in his hand because he is so old. 5 And the open spaces of the town will be full of boys and girls playing in its open spaces. 6 This is what the Lord of armies has said: If this is a wonder to the rest of this people, is it a wonder to me? says the Lord of armies.
  • Mal 3:4 : 4 Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord, as in days gone by, and as in past years.
  • Jer 32:39-40 : 39 And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them: 40 And I will make an eternal agreement with them, that I will never give them up, but ever do them good; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they will not go away from me.

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    20 Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?

  • Lam 5:22
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    22 But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.

  • Ps 85:4-7
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    4 Come back to us, O God of our salvation, and be angry with us no longer.

    5 Will you go on being angry with us for ever? will you keep your wrath against us through all the long generations?

    6 Will you not give us life again, so that your people may be glad in you?

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  • Ps 80:3-4
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    3 Take us back again, O God; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.

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  • Ps 80:18-19
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    18 So will we not be turned back from you; keep us in life, and we will give praise to your name.

    19 Take us back, O Lord God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.

  • Ps 80:7
    80%

    7 Take us back again, O God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.

  • Ps 90:12-15
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    12 So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.

    13 Come back, O Lord; how long? let your purpose for your servants be changed.

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    15 Make us glad in reward for the days of our sorrow, and for the years in which we have seen evil.

  • Ps 60:1
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  • Lam 3:40-41
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    40 Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;

    41 Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.

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    4 Let our fate be changed, O Lord, like the streams in the South.

  • Isa 31:6
    76%

    6 Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.

  • Jer 3:21-22
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    21 A voice is sounding on the open hilltops, the weeping and the prayers of the children of Israel; because their way is twisted, they have not kept the Lord their God in mind.

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  • Lam 5:1
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  • Isa 63:17
    75%

    17 O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.

  • Ps 44:17-18
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    75%

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    18 Our hearts have not gone back, and our steps have not been turned out of your way;

  • Jer 25:5
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  • Hos 6:1
    75%

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  • Jer 14:20-21
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    73%

    8 Do not keep in mind against us the sins of our fathers; let your mercy come to us quickly, for we have been made very low.

  • 2 Chr 30:9
    73%

    9 For if you come back to the Lord, those who took away your brothers and your children will have pity on them, and let them come back to this land: for the Lord your God is full of grace and mercy, and his face will not be turned away from you if you come back to him.

  • Ps 90:3
    73%

    3 You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men.

  • Ps 44:10
    73%

    10 Because of this we are turned back by the attacker: those who have hate for us take our goods for themselves.

  • Joel 2:12
    73%

    12 But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:

  • Ps 25:6
    72%

    6 O Lord, keep in mind your pity and your mercies; for they have been from the earliest times.

  • Ps 44:23
    72%

    23 Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.

  • Ps 80:14
    72%

    14 Come back, O God of armies: from heaven let your eyes be turned to this vine, and give your mind to it,

  • Deut 4:30
    72%

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  • Hos 14:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

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    2 O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall.

  • Dan 9:13
    72%

    13 As it was recorded in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us: but we have made no prayer for grace from the Lord our God that we might be turned from our evil doings and come to true wisdom.

  • Isa 33:2
    72%

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  • 2 Chr 6:37
    72%

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  • Jer 4:1
    72%

    1 If you will come back, O Israel, says the Lord, you will come back to me: and if you will put away your disgusting ways, you will not be sent away from before me.

  • Jer 31:18
    71%

    18 Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.

  • Ps 25:16
    71%

    16 Be turned to me, and have mercy on me; for I am troubled and have no helper.

  • Isa 64:9
    71%

    9 Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls.