Quotes About Restoration

Then a shoot will spring up from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch from his roots will bear fruit.

On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.

The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORDís land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.

you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!

Even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon exult over you: “Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes against us.”

who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”

Let my fugitives stay with you; be a refuge for Moab from the destroyer.” When the oppressor has gone, destruction has ceased, and the oppressors have vanished from the land,

This is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins.

In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites and to utter desolation.

And the LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; He will strike them but heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and He will hear their prayers and heal them.

And at the end of seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.

So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.

Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.

In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.

By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.

Therefore Jacobís guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.

Therefore the LORD who redeemed Abraham says of the house of Jacob: “No longer will Jacob be ashamed and no more will his face grow pale.

The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted.

Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.

Your ropes are slack; they cannot secure the mast or spread the sail. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided, and even the lame will carry off plunder.

For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.

The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.