Answer me, Adonai, answer me, so that these people may know that You, Adonai, are God, and that You have turned their heart back again.”
Lamentations 5:21 - Tree of Life Version Bring us back to You, Adonai, and we will return. Renew our days as of old— Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Turn us to Yourself, O Lord, and we shall be turned and restored! Renew our days as of old!– American Standard Version (1901) Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old. Common English Bible Return us, LORD, to yourself. Please let us return! Give us new days, like those long ago— Catholic Public Domain Version Convert us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be converted. Renew our days, as from the beginning. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning. |
Answer me, Adonai, answer me, so that these people may know that You, Adonai, are God, and that You have turned their heart back again.”
Then we will not turn away from You. Revive us, and we will call on Your Name.
Before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up Your might, and come to save us.
You make us a contention to our neighbors, and our enemies mock as they please.
Will You withdraw all Your wrath? Will You turn from Your burning anger?
No more will your sun set, nor will your moon wane, for Adonai will be your everlasting light, as the days of your mourning end.
His children also will be as formerly —his community set up before Me— and I will punish all his oppressors.
For after I returned, I repented, and after that I was instructed, I struck my thigh— I was ashamed and also humiliated, for I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria— planters will plant and use them.
Thus says Adonai: “Yet again in this place—which you are saying is a waste without man or beast, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem the desolate, without man, without inhabitant and without beast—there will be heard
In the towns of the hill country, in the towns of the foothills, in the towns of the South, in the land of Benjamin, in the places around Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah, will the flocks again pass under the hands of one who counts them,” declares Adonai.
Thus says Adonai Elohim: “I will again be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them—I will populate them with people like a flock.
Adonai, I have heard the report about You and I have come to fear. Adonai, revive Your work throughout the years, throughout the years make it known, In wrath remember compassion.
Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to Adonai, as in days of antiquity and years of old.