Quotes About Restoration

Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.

After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.

Also for you, O Judah, a harvest is appointed, when I restore My people from captivity.

I will chasten them when I please; nations will be gathered against them to put them in bondage for their double transgression.

You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me—against your helper.

Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.

I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.

It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.

The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.

Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him—grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.

Then the LORD became jealous for His land, and He spared His people.

And the LORD answered His people: “Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and by them you will be satisfied. I will never again make you a reproach among the nations.

The northern army I will drive away from you, banishing it to a barren and desolate land, its front ranks into the Eastern Sea, and its rear guard into the Western Sea. And its stench will rise; its foul odor will ascend. For He has done great things.

I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—My great army that I sent against you.

You will have plenty to eat, until you are satisfied. You will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has worked wonders for you. My people will never again be put to shame.

“Yes, in those days and at that time, when I restore Judah and Jerusalem from captivity,

Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.

“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”

Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.

Surely the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” declares the LORD.

“In that day I will restore the fallen tent of David. I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,

I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.

I will firmly plant them in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land that I have given them,” says the LORD your God.

And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.