Psalm 85:1–13

¹You favored your land, O Lord. 

You restored the fortunes of Jacob. 

²You removed your people’s guilt. 

You pardoned all their sins. 

Selah 

³You laid aside all your fury. 

You turned away from your burning anger. 

⁴Restore us, O God, our savior. 

Put an end to your anger against us. 

⁵Will you be angry with us forever? 

Will you ever let go of your anger in the generations to come? 

⁶Won’t you restore our lives again 

so that your people may find joy in you? 

⁷Show us your mercy, O Lord, 

by giving us your salvation. 

⁸I want to hear what God the Lord says, 

because he promises peace to his people, to his godly ones. 

But they must not go back to their stupidity. 

⁹Indeed, his salvation is near those who fear him, 

and ⸤his⸥ glory will remain in our land. 

¹⁰Mercy and truth have met. 

Righteousness and peace have kissed. 

¹¹Truth sprouts from the ground, 

and righteousness looks down from heaven. 

¹²The Lord will certainly give us what is good, 

and our land will produce crops. 

¹³Righteousness will go ahead of him 

and make a path for his steps.