Lamentations 5:21

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Lamentations 5:21

Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

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Answer me, O LORD, answer me, that this people may know that you, O LORD, are God, and that you have turned their hearts back."

Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved!

Restore us again, O God of our salvation, and put away your indignation toward us!

I have heard Ephraim grieving, 'You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for you are the LORD my God.

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their own good and the good of their children after them.

And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,

I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.

O LORD, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O LORD, do I fear. In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.

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Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel! Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.

"Thus says the LORD: In this place of which you say, 'It is a waste without man or beast,' in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man or inhabitant or beast, there shall be heard again

Thus says the LORD: I have returned to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the LORD of hosts, the holy mountain.

Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the LORD as in the days of old and as in former years.