Bible verses about "restoration" | DouayRheims

¹ Behold my servant, I will uphold him: my elect, my soul delighteth in him: I have given my spirit upon him, he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. ² He shall not cry, nor have respect to person, neither shall his voice be heard abroad. ³ The bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench, he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. ⁴ He shall not be sad, nor troublesome, till he set judgment in the earth, and the islands shall wait for his law. ⁵ Thus saith the Lord God that created the heavens, and stretched them out: that established the earth, and the things that spring out of it: that giveth breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that tread thereon. ⁶ I the Lord have called thee in justice, and taken thee by the hand, and preserved thee. And I have given thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles: ⁷ That thou mightest open the eyes of the blind, and bring forth the prisoner out of prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. ⁸ I the Lord, this is my name: I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to graven things. ⁹ The things that were first, behold they are come: and new things do I declare: before they spring forth, I will make you hear them. ¹⁰ Sing ye to the Lord a new song, his praise is from the ends of the earth: you that go down to the sea, and all that are therein: ye islands, and ye inhabitants of them. ¹¹ Let the desert and the cities thereof be exalted: Cedar shall dwell in houses: ye inhabitants of Petra, give praise, they shall cry from the top of the mountains. ¹² They shall give glory to the Lord, and shall declare his praise in the islands. ¹³ The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, as a man of war shall he stir up zeal: he shall shout and cry: he shall prevail against his enemies. ¹⁴ I have always held my peace, I have kept silence, I have been patient, I will speak now as a woman in labour: I will destroy, and swallow up at once. ¹⁵ I will lay waste the mountains and hills, and will make all their grass to wither: and I will turn rivers into islands, and will dry up the standing pools. ¹⁶ And I will lead the blind into the way which they know not: and in the paths which they were ignorant of I will make them walk: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight: these things have I done to them, and have not forsaken them. ¹⁷ They are turned back: let them be greatly confounded, that trust in a graven thing, that say to a molten thing: You are our god. ¹⁸ Hear, ye deaf, and, ye blind, behold that you may see. ¹⁹ Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, but he to whom I have sent my messengers? Who is blind, but he that is sold? or who is blind, but the servant of the Lord? ²⁰ Thou that seest many things, wilt thou not observe them? thou that hast ears open, wilt thou not hear? ²¹ And the Lord was willing to sanctify him, and to magnify the law, and exalt it. ²² But this is a people that is robbed and wasted: they are all the snare of young men, and they are hid in the houses of prisons: they are made a prey, and there is none to deliver them: a spoil, and there is none that saith: Restore. ²³ Who is there among you that will give ear to this, that will attend and hearken for times to come? ²⁴ Who hath given Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to robbers? hath not the Lord himself, against whom we have sinned? And they would not walk in his ways, and they have not hearkened to his law. ²⁵ And he hath poured out upon him the indignation of his fury, and a strong battle, and hath burnt him round about, and he knew not: and set him on fire, and he understood not.

¹¹ For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of affliction, to give you an end and patience.

¹² Return to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope, I will render thee double as I declare today.

³³ Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.

¹ Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God: believe also in me.

¹ Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

¹ I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth was gone: and the sea is now no more. ² And I, John, saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. ³ And I heard a great voice from the throne, saying: Behold the tabernacle of God with men: and he will dwell with them. And they shall be his people: and God himself with them shall be their God. ⁴ And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes: and death shall be no more. Nor mourning, nor crying, nor sorrow shall be any more, for the former things are passed away. ⁵ And he that sat on the throne, said: Behold, I make all things new. And he said to me: Write. For these words are most faithful and true.

²⁴ Therefore I say unto you, all things, whatsoever you ask when ye pray, believe that you shall receive: and they shall come unto you.

⁴ For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world. And this is the victory which overcameth the world: Our faith.

¹⁰ But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, will himself perfect you and confirm you and establish you.

¹⁰ The Lord also was turned at the penance of Job, when he prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

⁷ For your double confusion and shame, they shall praise their part: therefore shall they receive double in their land, everlasting joy shall be unto them.

¹⁹ Be penitent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out. ²⁰ That when the times of refreshment shall come from the presence of the Lord, and he shall send him who hath been preached unto you, Jesus Christ. ²¹ Whom heaven indeed must receive, until the times of the restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets, from the beginning of the world.

^{12 (51:14)} Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.

¹⁷ For I will close up thy scar, and will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord. Because they have called thee, O Sion, an outcast: This is she that hath none to seek after her.

²⁵ And I will restore to you the years which the locust, and the bruchus, and the mildew, and the palmerworm hath eaten; my great host which I sent upon you. ²⁶ And you shall eat in plenty, and shall be filled and you shall praise the name of the Lord your God; who hath done wonders with you, and my people shall not be confounded for ever.