Psalms 85:1–13

^{For the director. Of the sons of Ko′rah. A melody.}

¹You have taken pleasure, O Jehovah, in your land;
You have brought back the ones taken captive of Jacob.

²You have pardoned the error of your people;
You have covered all their sin. ​Se′lah.

³You have controlled all your fury;
You have turned back from the heat of your anger.

⁴Gather us back, O God of our salvation,
And break off your vexation with us.

⁵Is it to time indefinite that you will be incensed at us?
Will you draw out your anger to generation after generation?

⁶Will you yourself not enliven us again,
That your people themselves may rejoice in you?

⁷Show us, O Jehovah, your loving‐kindness,
And your salvation may you give to us.

⁸I will hear what the [true] God Jehovah will speak,
For he will speak peace to his people and to his loyal ones,
But let them not return to self‐confidence.

⁹Surely his salvation is near to those fearing him,
For glory to reside in our land.

¹⁰As for loving‐kindness and trueness, they have met each other;
Righteousness and peace—they have kissed each other.

¹¹Trueness itself will sprout out of the very earth,
And righteousness itself will look down from the very heavens.

¹²Also, Jehovah, for his part, will give what is good,
And our own land will give its yield.

¹³Before him righteousness itself will walk,
And it will make a way by his steppings.