Quotes About Restoration

Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?

Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—

Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.

Then we will not turn away from You; revive us, and we will call on Your name.

Restore us, O LORD God of Hosts; cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.

Cover their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD.

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. You showed favor to Your land, O LORD; You restored Jacob from captivity.

You forgave the iniquity of Your people; You covered all their sin. Selah

You withheld all Your fury; You turned from Your burning anger.

Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put away Your displeasure toward us.

Will You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations?

Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?

I will attend to their transgression with the rod, and to their iniquity with stripes.

You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.

You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.

because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.

You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor—the appointed time has come.

For Your servants delight in her stones and take pity on her dust.

For the LORD will rebuild Zion; He has appeared in His glory.

He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,

who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,

He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.

and gathered from the lands, from east and west, from north and south.

He turns a desert into pools of water and a dry land into flowing springs.