“And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.” Joel 2:25-26
Restore – Webster’s 1828 Dictionary definitions:
- To return to a person, as a specific thing which he has lost, or which has been taken from him and unjustly detained. We restore lost or stolen goods to the owner.
- To replace; to return; as a person or thing to a former place.
- To bring back.
- To bring back or recover from lapse, degeneracy, declension or ruin to its former state.
- To heal; to cure; to recover from disease.
- To make restitution or satisfaction for a thing taken, by returning something else, or something of different value.
- To give for satisfaction for pretended wrongs something not taken. Ps. 69.
- To repair; to rebuild; as, to restore and to build Jerusalem. Daniel 9.
- To revive; to resuscitate; to bring back to life.
- To return or bring back after absence. Heb. 13.
- To bring to a sense of sin and amendment of life. Gal. 6.
- To renew or re-establish after interruption; as, peace is restored. Friendship between the parties is restored.
- To recover or renew, as passages of an author obscured or corrupted; as, to restore the true reading.
How has the Lord restored you and your life?
Finding Joy in the Journey,
Phyllis
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