New Revised Standard Version
Restore our fortunes, O LORD, like the watercourses in the Negeb.

Contemporary English Version
Our LORD, we ask you to bless our people again, and let us be like streams in the Southern Desert.

New American Bible
Restore our captives, LORD, like the dry stream beds of the Negeb.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as a stream in the south.

Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as a stream in the south.

turn again

Psalm 126:1 A gradual canticle. When the Lord brought back the captivity of Sion, we became like men comforted.

Psalm 85:4 Convert us, O God our saviour: and turn off thy anger from us.

Hosea 1:11 And the children of Juda, and the children of Israel, shall be gathered together: and they shall appoint themselves one head, and shall come up out of the land: for great is the day of Jezrahel.

as the streams

Joshua 3:16 The waters that came down from above stood in one place, and swelling up like a mountain, were seen afar off, from the city that is called Adom, to the place of Sarthan: but those that were beneath, ran down into the sea of the wilderness, (which now is called the Dead Sea) until they wholly failed.

Isaiah 41:18 I will open rivers in the high hills, and fountains in the midst of the plains: I will turn the desert into pools of waters, and the impassable land into streams of waters.