21Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
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Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
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 God.
Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-22)Here, I. The people of God express the deep concern they had for the ruins of the temple, more than for any other of their calamities; the interests of God’s house lay nearer their hearts than those of their own ( Lam. 5:17 , 18 ): For this our heart is faint , and sinks under the load of its own heaviness; for these things our eyes are dim , and our sight is gone, as is usual in a deliquium, or f…
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