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When God made Jerusalem prosperous again, it was wonderful; it seemed as though we were dreaming.
We were extremely happy, and we continued shouting joyfully. Then the other peoples said about us, "God has done great things for them!"
We said, "Yes, God truly has done great things for us, and we are very happy."
Restore us, O God, like the rains that fill the streams in the southern Judean wilderness. Enable our nation to become great again like it was before.
We cried when we planted seeds because it was hard work preparing the soil that had not been plowed for many years; now we want to shout joyfully because we are gathering a big harvest.
Those who cried as they carried the bags of seeds to the fields will shout joyfully when they bring the crops to their houses at harvest time.
Source
Unlocked Dynamic Bible. Original work of the Unlocked Dynamic Bible in English available at https://unfoldingword.org/udb/. By the Door43 World Missions Community (Wycliffe Associates release v19-10); based on A Translation for Translators by Ellis W. Deibler, Jr. (CC BY-SA 4.0). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: Door43 WycliffeAssociates/en_udb release v19-10. Changes: reformatted for display (USFM to verses); no wording changed. Audio (including text-to-speech) and other adaptations are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Where a verse number appears twice in the source, the first copy is shown. Editorial rendering: in this app the divine name "Yahweh" is displayed and read aloud as "God" (and "Yahweh God" as "God"). The stored text and the imported source are unchanged; this is a display-layer substitution, not part of the translation.
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