Lamentations 5:21
Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
KJV
Converte nos, Domine, ad te, et convertemur ; innova dies nostros, sicut a principio.
Vulgate
ἐπίστρεψον ἡμᾶς, Κύριε, πρὸς σέ, καὶ ἐπιστραφησόμεθα· καὶ ἀνακαίνισον ἡμέρας ἡμῶν καθὼς ἔμπροσθεν.
LXX
Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.
ASV
הֲשִׁיבֵ֨/נוּ יְהוָ֤ה אֵלֶ֨י/ךָ֙ ו/נשוב וְֽ/נָשׁ֔וּבָה חַדֵּ֥שׁ יָמֵ֖י/נוּ כְּ/קֶֽדֶם
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
ה
h
noun · 87×
חַדֵּ֖שׁ
chdsh
verb · 10×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
שׁ֣וּב
shvb
verb · 1058×
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§1432The human heart is heavy and hardened. God must give man a new heart.25 Conversion is first of all a work of the grace of God who makes our hearts return to him: "Restore us to thyself, O LORD, that we may be restored!"26 God gives us the strength to begin anew. It is in discovering the greatness of God's love that our heart is shaken by the horror and weight of sin and begins …
Without grace, can man know anything? Without God's grace, can man do or wish any good? Without grace, can man love God above all things? Without grace, can man keep the commandments of the Law? Without grace, can he merit eternal life? Without grace, can man prepare himself for grace? Without grace, can he rise from sin? Without grace, can man avoid sin? Having received grace,…
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 18:37 — Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
- Acts 3:19 — Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
- Amos 9:11 — In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
- Dan 9:13 — As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.
- Ezek 11:19 — And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
- Ezek 36:25 — Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
- Ezek 36:37 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.
- Hab 3:2 — O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
- Jer 31:4 — Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
- Jer 31:18 — I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my Go
- Jer 31:18 — I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my Go
- Jer 32:39 — And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
- Jer 33:10 — Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are deso
- Jer 33:13 — In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks
- Ps 80:3 — Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
- Ps 80:3 — Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
- Ps 80:7 — Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
- Ps 80:19 — Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
- Ps 85:4 — Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
- Ps 85:4 — Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
- Zech 8:3 — Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.