Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Turn our captivity, O LORD, as the rivers in the south.

New American Standard Bible

Restore our captivity, O Lord,
As the streams in the South.

King James Version

Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.

Holman Bible

Restore our fortunes, Lord,
like watercourses in the Negev.

International Standard Version

Restore our exiles, LORD, like the streams of the Negev.

A Conservative Version

Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the South.

American Standard Version

Turn again our captivity, O Jehovah, As the streams in the South.

Amplified


Restore our captivity, O Lord,
As the stream-beds in the South (the Negev) [are restored by torrents of rain].

Darby Translation

Turn our captivity, O Jehovah, as the streams in the south.

Julia Smith Translation

Jehovah turned back our captivity, as torrents in the south.

King James 2000

Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the South.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Restore, O Yahweh, our fortunes like the streams in the Negeb.

Modern King James verseion

Turn again our captivity, O Jehovah, as the streams in the south.

NET Bible

O Lord, restore our well-being, just as the streams in the arid south are replenished.

New Heart English Bible

Restore our fortunes again, LORD, like the streams in the Negev.

The Emphasized Bible

Bring thou back, O Yahweh, our captives, like channels in the South.

Webster

Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.

World English Bible

Restore our fortunes again, Yahweh, like the streams in the Negev.

Youngs Literal Translation

Turn again, O Jehovah, to our captivity, As streams in the south.

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Zion's Restoration

3 Yea the LORD hath done great things for us already, whereof we rejoice. 4 Turn our captivity, O LORD, as the rivers in the south. 5 They that sow in tears, shall reap in joy.

Cross References

Joshua 3:16

the water that came down from above did stop; and stood upon a heap, a great way from Adam, a city beside Zarethan. And the water that went down vanished into the sea of the wilderness called the salt sea as soon as it was divided: and the people went right over against Jericho.

Psalm 85:4

Turn us then, O God our Saviour, and let thine anger cease from us.

Psalm 126:1

{A song of the stairs} When the LORD turneth again the captivity of Zion, then were we like unto them that dream.

Isaiah 35:6

Then shall the lame man leap as a hart and the dumb man's tongue shall give thanks. In the wilderness also, there shall wells spring, and floods of water in the desert.

Isaiah 41:18

I bring forth floods in the hills, and wells in the plain fields. I turn the wilderness to rivers, and the dry land to conduits of water.

Isaiah 43:19

Behold, I shall make a new thing, and shortly shall it appear. Ye shall well know it; I told it you afore, but I will tell it you again. I will make streets in the desert, and rivers of water in the wilderness.

Hosea 1:11

Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together again, and chose themselves one head, and then depart out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel."

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