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Psalm 85 · Book Three · the sons of Korah

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

The Hebrew title · Berean Standard Bible

For the choirmaster

About this psalm

A prayer for revival that starts by admitting God has done it before: thou hast been favourable unto thy land. Then the asking — wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee? The verse it is loved for is a picture of four things that do not usually fit together: Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Read it when you want God to start something again.

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One verse at a time · it stops at the Selah

¹Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land:thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.²Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin.

Selah

³Thou hast taken away all thy wrath:thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.⁴Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.⁵Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?⁶Wilt thou not revive us again:that thy people may rejoice in thee?⁷Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.⁸I will hear what God the LORD will speak:for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints:but let them not turn again to folly.⁹Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him;that glory may dwell in our land.¹⁰Mercy and truth are met together;righteousness and peace have kissed each other.¹¹Truth shall spring out of the earth;and righteousness shall look down from heaven.¹²Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good;and our land shall yield her increase.¹³Righteousness shall go before him;and shall set us in the way of his steps.

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