Lamentations 5:21
Good News Translation
Bring us back to you, LORD! Bring us back! Restore our ancient glory.

New Revised Standard Version
Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may be restored; renew our days as of old—

Contemporary English Version
Bring us back to you! Give us a fresh start.

New American Bible
Bring us back to you, LORD, that we may return: renew our days as of old.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.

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1 Kings 18:37 Dear me, O Lord, hear me: that this people may learn that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart again.

Psalm 80:3,7,19 Convert us, O God: and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved. . . .

Psalm 85:4 Convert us, O God our saviour: and turn off thy anger from us.

Jeremiah 31:18 Hearing I heard Ephraim when he went into captivity: thou hast chastised me, and I was instructed, as a young bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. Convert me, and I shall be converted, for thou art the Lord my God.

Jeremiah 32:39,40 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me all days: and that it may be well with them, and with their children after them. . . .

Exodus 36:25-27,37 At that side also of the tabernacle, that looketh towards the north, he made twenty boards, . . .

Habakkuk 3:2 O Lord, I have heard thy hearing, and was afraid. O Lord, thy work, in the midst of the years bring it to life: In the midst of the years thou shalt make it known: when thou art angry, thou wilt remember mercy.

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Jeremiah 31:4,23-25 And I will build thee again, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy timbrels, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. . . .

Jeremiah 33:10,13 Thus saith the Lord: There shall be heard again in this place (which you say is desolate, because there is neither man nor beast: in the cities of Juda, and without Jerusalem, which are desolate without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast) . . .

Zechariah 8:3-6 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I am returned to Sion, and I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called The city of truth, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, The sanctified mountain. . . .

Malachi 3:4 And the sacrifice of Juda and of Jerusalem shall please the Lord, as in the days of old, and in the ancient years.

Context
A Prayer for Restoration
20Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time? 21Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.22But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry with us.…
Cross References
Psalm 80:3
Convert us, O God: and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved.

Isaiah 60:20
Thy sun shall go down no more, and thy moon shall not decrease: for the Lord shall be unto thee for an everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.

Jeremiah 31:18
Hearing I heard Ephraim when he went into captivity: thou hast chastised me, and I was instructed, as a young bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. Convert me, and I shall be converted, for thou art the Lord my God.

Lamentations 5:20
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