Lamentations 5:21

A Request For Mercy

²⁰ Why have You forgotten us forever,
abandoned us for our entire lives?
²¹ Lord, restore us to Yourself, so we may return;
renew our days as in former times,
²² unless You have completely rejected us
and are intensely angry with us.

Let Us

Former Time

Jehovah

Psalm 80:3

Restore us, God;
look on us with favor,
and we will be saved.

Jeremiah 31:18

I have heard Ephraim moaning,
“You disciplined me, and I have been disciplined
like an untrained calf.
Restore me, and I will return,
for you, Lord, are my God.

Psalm 80:7

Restore us, God of Hosts;
look on us with favor, and we will be saved.

Psalm 80:19

Restore us, Yahweh, the God of Hosts;
look on us with favor, and we will be saved.

1 Kings 18:37

Answer me, Lord! Answer me so that this people will know that You, Yahweh, are God and that You have turned their hearts back.”

Psalm 85:4

Return to us, God of our salvation,
and abandon Your displeasure with us.

Jeremiah 31:4

Again I will build you so that you will be rebuilt,
Virgin Israel.
You will take up your tambourines again
and go out in joyful dancing.

Jeremiah 31:23-25

This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “When I restore their fortunes, they will once again speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities, ‘May the Lord bless you, righteous settlement, holy mountain.’

Jeremiah 32:39-40

I will give them one heart and one way so that for their good and for the good of their descendants after them, they will fear Me always.

Jeremiah 33:10

“This is what the Lord says: In this place, which you say is a ruin, without man or beast—that is, in Judah’s cities and Jerusalem’s streets that are a desolation without man, without inhabitant, and without beast—there will be heard again

Jeremiah 33:13

The flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them in the cities of the hill country, the cities of the Judean foothills, the cities of the Negev, the land of Benjamin—the cities surrounding Jerusalem and Judah’s cities, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 11:19-20

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

Ezekiel 36:25-27

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 36:37

“This is what the Lord God says: I will respond to the house of Israel and do this for them: I will multiply them in number like a flock.

Habakkuk 3:2

Lord, I have heard the report about You;
Lord, I stand in awe of Your deeds.
Revive Your work in these years;
make it known in these years.
In Your wrath remember mercy!

Zechariah 8:3-6

The Lord says this: “I will return to Zion and live in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the Faithful City, the mountain of the Lord of Hosts, and the Holy Mountain.”

Malachi 3:4

And the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will please the Lord as in days of old and years gone by.