Psalm 85
You Showed Favor to Your Land
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
¹ You showed favor to Your land, O LORD; You restored Jacob from captivity.1
² You forgave the iniquity of Your people; You covered all their sin. Selah
³ You withheld all Your fury; You turned from Your burning anger.
⁴ Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put away Your displeasure toward us.
⁵ Will You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations?
⁶ Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?
⁷ Show us Your loving devotion, O LORD, and grant us Your salvation.
⁸ I will listen to what God the LORD will say; for He will surely speak peace to His people and His saints; He will not let them return to folly.
⁹ Surely His salvation is near to those who fear Him, that His glory may dwell in our land.
¹⁰ Loving devotion and faithfulness have joined together; righteousness and peace have kissed.
¹¹ Faithfulness sprouts from the earth, and righteousness looks down from heaven.
¹² The LORD will indeed provide what is good, and our land will yield its increase.
¹³ Righteousness will go before Him to prepare the way for His steps.
85:1 Or restored the fortunes of Jacob ↩︎