98 Verses about the Promise of Restoration

Who is a God like you, forgiving sin and passing over rebellion for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, for he delights in loyal love.He will again have compassion on us; he will trample our iniquities. And you will hurl all their sins in the depths of the sea.

Seek Yahweh while he lets himself be found; call him while he is near.Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of sin his thoughts. And let him return to Yahweh, that he may take pity on him, and to our God, for he will forgive manifold.

‘For there will be a sowing of peace; the vine will give its fruit, and the soil will give its produce, and the heavens will give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.

The poor and the needy are seeking water and there is none; their tongue is dried up with thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.I will open rivers on the barren heights and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness like a pool of water and the land of dryness like springs of water.

and Yahweh your God will restore your fortunes, and he will have compassion upon you, and he will again gather you together from all the peoples where Yahweh your God scattered you there.

the voice of jubilation, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who say, “Praise Yahweh of hosts, for Yahweh is good, for his loyal love is forever,” the voices of those who bring thank offerings to the house of Yahweh, for I will restore the fortunes of the land as in the beginning,’ says Yahweh.

Commit to Yahweh your way; Trust also on him and he will act.

Even to your old age I am he; even to your advanced age I myself will support you. I myself have made you, and I myself will carry you, and I myself will support you, and I will save you.

Therefore strengthen your slackened hands and your weakened knees,and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame will not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

Heal me, O Yahweh, and I will be healed, save me, and I will be saved, for you are my praise.

And he said, “If you carefully listen to the voice of Yahweh your God and you do what is right in his eyes and give heed to his commands and you keep all his rules, then I will not bring about on you any of the diseases that I brought about on Egypt, because I am Yahweh your healer.

Create a clean heart for me, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob, and I will have compassion on all of the house of Israel, and I will be jealous for my holy name.

I abandoned you for a short moment, but I will gather you with great compassion.

I will heal their disloyalty; I will love them freely because my anger has turned back from them.

Therefore we do not lose heart, but even if our outer person is being destroyed, yet our inner person is being renewed day after day.

to give for those in mourning in Zion, to give them a head wrap instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, a garment of praise instead of a faint spirit. And they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, to show his glory.

And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins he will be forgiven.

Wilderness and dry land shall be glad, and desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus.It shall blossom abundantly, and it shall rejoice indeed with rejoicing and exulting. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They are the ones who shall see the glory of Yahweh, the majesty of our God.

And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose,

Sing for joy, heavens, and rejoice, earth! Mountains must break forth in rejoicing! For Yahweh has comforted his people, and he will take pity on his afflicted ones.

The thief comes only so that he can steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

For look, days are coming,’ declares Yahweh, ‘when I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel and Judah,’ says Yahweh, ‘and I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their ancestors and they will take possession of it.’ ”

He gives power to the weary, and he increases power for the powerless.

“In that day,” declares Yahweh, “I will assemble the one who limps, and I will gather the one who has been scattered, and those whom I have mistreated.And I will make the one who limps a remnant, and the one driven far away a strong nation, and Yahweh will reign over them on Mount Zion from now to forever.

For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. And I will build them and not annihilate them, and I will plant them and not uproot them.

Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous person accomplishes much.

This is my comfort in my misery: that your word preserves my life.

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and I will tell you great things and inaccessible things that you have not known.’

Thus says Yahweh: “I have answered you in a time of favor, and helped you on a day of salvation, and watched over you, and given you as a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to give the desolate hereditary property as an inheritance,

This God, his way is blameless; the promise of Yahweh is flawless. He is a shield to all who take refuge in him.

And the one seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new!” And he said, “Write, because these words are faithful and true.”

God is our refuge and strength, a very sufficient help in troubles.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they shall not flow over you. When you walk through fire, you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not scorch you.

For look! I am about to create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered, and they shall not come to mind.

Blessed are those who are hungry now, because you will be satisfied. Blessed are those who weep now, Because you will laugh.

“Comfort; comfort my people,” says your God.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of a pupil, to know how to help the weary with a word. He awakens morning by morning, awakens an ear for me to listen as do the pupils.

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because of which he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to send out in freedom those who are oppressed,

You who have caused me to see many troubles and evils, you will again revive me. And from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up.

The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is upon me, because Yahweh has anointed me, he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives and liberation to those who are bound,

“For thus says Yahweh, ‘Just as I have brought to this people all this great disaster, so I will bring upon them all the good that I promise to them.

Come to me, all of you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.

Break forth, sing for joy together, ruins of Jerusalem, for Yahweh has comforted his people; he has redeemed Jerusalem.

Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

The loyal love of Yahweh does not cease; his compassions do not come to an end.They are new in the morning, great is your faithfulness.

Thus says Yahweh: “Restrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for there is a reward for your work,” declares Yahweh, “and they will return from the land of the enemy.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

I will repay you the years that the locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my mighty troops that I sent against you.

Return to the fortress, O prisoners of hope; today I am declaring that I will repay you double.

For I know the plans that I am planning concerning you,’ declares Yahweh, ‘plans for prosperity and not for harm, to give to you a future and a hope.

Those who sow with tears shall reap with rejoicing.

Then Yahweh returned Job’s fortune when he prayed to him on behalf of his friends. Thus Yahweh increased all that Job had twice as much as before.

But those who wait for Yahweh shall renew their strength. They shall go up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not grow weary; they shall walk and not be faint.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.

O God, restore us, and cause your face to shine that we may be saved.

For I will saturate the thirst of the weary, and every person who languishes I will replenish.”

Come, let us return to Yahweh; because it is he who has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck us down and will bind us up.

“Arise, shine! For your light has come, and the glory of Yahweh has risen on you.

And they shall rebuild ancient ruins from you; you shall erect the foundations of many generations, and you shall be called the bricklayer of the breach, the restorer of paths to live in.

He is the one who heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds.

For I will present healing to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,’ declares Yahweh. ‘Because they have called you an outcast, saying, “It is Zion, there is no one who cares for her.” ’

Instead of your shame, a double portion, and instead of insult, they will rejoice over their portion. Therefore they will take a double portion in their land; they shall possess everlasting joy.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and with a willing spirit sustain me.

then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and will pray and will seek my face and will turn from their evil ways, then I myself shall hear from the heavens and will forgive their sins and heal their land.

I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; and I will lead him and give him and his mourners comfort as a recompense,

And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered for a short time, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

He restores my life. He leads me in correct paths for the sake of his name.

And I will give a new heart to you, and a new spirit I will give into your inner parts, and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh, and I will give to you a heart of flesh.

Look, I am going to bring healing and health to it, and I will heal them, and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and reliability.

“You must not remember the former things, and you not must consider the former things.Look! I am about to do a new thing! Now it sprouts! Do you not perceive it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.

who satisfies your life with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

For look! In those days, and in that time, when I will return the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: “Look! I am bringing into you breath, and you will live!

I will again build you, and you will be built, O virgin Israel. You will again adorn yourself with your tambourines, and you will go forth in the dancing in a ring of the merrymakers.

casting all your cares on him, because he cares for you.

creating fruit of lips. Peace, peace to the far and near,” says Yahweh, “and I will heal him.

Will you not again revive us, that your people might rejoice in you?

Do not fear, O land, rejoice and be glad, because Yahweh has done great things.

With weeping they will come, and with pleas for mercy I will bring them; I will let them walk by streams of water in a straight path. They will not stumble in it, for I have become to Israel a father, and Ephraim, he is my firstborn.”

I have wiped your transgressions out like a cloud and your sins like mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you!

Restore us to you, O Yahweh, that we will be restored; renew our days as of old.

For you shall go out in joy, and you shall be led in peace. The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you, rejoicing and all the trees of the field shall clap hands.

“I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the scattered, and I will bind up the one hurt, and I will strengthen the sick; and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed her with justice.”

And the light of the full moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, like the light of seven days, on the day when Yahweh binds up the breakage of his people, and he heals the wound of his blow.

He sent his word and healed them, and he delivered them from their pits.

Yahweh your God is in your midst; a mighty warrior who saves. He shall rejoice over you with joy; he renews you in his love; he will exult over you with singing.

For the mountains may depart, and the hills may sway, but my faithfulness shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not sway,” says Yahweh, who has compassion on you,

“Look, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh; is anything too difficult for me?”

And I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they will rebuild the desolated cities and will inhabit them. And they will plant vineyards and will drink their wine, and they will make gardens and will eat their fruit.

You must not fear, for I am with you; you must not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, indeed I will help you, indeed I will take hold of you with the right hand of my salvation.

You have turned my wailing into my dancing. You have removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy

“Then the young woman will rejoice in the dancing in a ring, and the young men and the old men together. And I will turn their mourning to jubilation, and I will comfort them, and I will gladden them from their sorrow.

For Yahweh will comfort Zion; he will comfort all its sites of ruins. And he will make its wilderness like Eden, and its desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in it, thanksgiving and the sound of song.

You who have caused me to see many troubles and evils, you will again revive me. And from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up.You will increase my greatness, and you will comfort me all around.

And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and the house of Joseph I will save. And I will bring them back, because I have compassion on them, and they will be as if I had not rejected them, for I am Yahweh their God, and I will answer them.

Return, O apostate children, I will heal your backsliding. ‘Look, we come to you, for you are Yahweh our God.