Restore our fortunes again, Yahweh, like the streams in the Negev.
Parallel translations
- KJV Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.
- BSB Restore our captives, O LORD, like streams in the Negev.
- NKJV Bring back our captivity, O Lord, As the streams in the South.
- NASB ¶Restore our fortunes, Lord, As the streams in the South.
- NLT Restore our fortunes, Lord, as streams renew the desert.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Ps 85:4Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.
- Isa 41:18I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the middle of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
- Isa 43:19Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
- Josh 3:16the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over near Jericho.
- Hos 1:11The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel.
- Ps 126:1A Song of Ascents. When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.
- Isa 35:6Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
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