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 <div class="label">85</div><div class="s1">Psalm 85#sn Psalm 85. God&#8217;s people recall how he forgave their sins in the past, pray that he might now restore them to his favor, and anticipate renewed blessings.</div><div class="s2">For the music director; written by the Korahites, a psalm.</div><div class="p">1 O Lord, you showed favor to your land;</div><div class="p">you restored the well-being of Jacob.#tn Heb &#8220;you turned with a turning [toward] Jacob.&#8221; The Hebrew term &#1513;&#1473;&#1456;&#1489;&#1493;&#1468;&#1514; (sh&#255;vut) is apparently a cognate accusative of &#1513;&#1473;&#1493;&#1468;&#1489; (shuv). See Pss 14:7; 53:6.</div><div class="p">2 You pardoned#tn Heb &#8220;lifted up.&#8221; the wrongdoing of your people;</div><div class="p">you forgave#tn Heb &#8220;covered over.&#8221; all their sin. (Selah)</div><div class="p">3 You withdrew all your fury;</div><div class="p">you turned back from your raging anger.#tn Heb &#8220;the rage of your anger.&#8221; The phrase &#8220;rage of your anger&#8221; employs an appositional genitive. Synonyms are joined in a construct relationship to emphasize the single idea. For a detailed discussion of the grammatical point with numerous examples, see Y. Avishur, &#8220;Pairs of Synonymous Words in the Construct State (and in Appositional Hendiadys) in Biblical Hebrew,&#8221; Semitics 2 (1971): 17-81. See Pss 69:24; 78:49.</div><div class="p">4 Restore us, O God our deliverer!</div><div class="p">Do not be displeased with us!#tn Heb &#8220;break your displeasure with us.&#8221; Some prefer to emend &#1492;&#1464;&#1508;&#1461;&#1512; (hafer, &#8220;break&#8221;) to &#1492;&#1464;&#1505;&#1461;&#1512; (haser, &#8220;turn aside&#8221;).</div><div class="p">5 Will you stay mad at us forever?</div><div class="p">Will you remain angry throughout future generations?#tn Heb &#8220;Will your anger stretch to a generation and a generation?&#8221;</div><div class="p">6 Will you not revive us once more?</div><div class="p">Then your people will rejoice in you!</div><div class="p">7 O Lord, show us your loyal love!</div><div class="p">Bestow on us your deliverance!</div><div class="p">8 I will listen to what God the Lord says.#sn I will listen. Having asked for the Lord&#8217;s favor, the psalmist (who here represents the nation) anticipates a divine word of assurance.</div><div class="p">For he will make#tn Heb &#8220;speak.&#8221; The idiom &#8220;speak peace&#8221; refers to establishing or maintaining peaceful relations with someone (see Gen 37:4; Zech 9:10; cf. Ps 122:8). peace with his people, his faithful followers.#tn Heb &#8220;to his people and to his faithful followers.&#8221; The translation assumes that &#8220;his people&#8221; and &#8220;his faithful followers&#8221; are viewed as identical here.</div><div class="p">Yet they must not#tn Or &#8220;yet let them not.&#8221; After the negative particle &#1488;&#1461;&#1500; (&#8217;el), the prefixed verbal form is jussive, indicating the speaker&#8217;s desire or wish. return to their foolish ways.</div><div class="p">9 Certainly his loyal followers will soon experience his deliverance;#tn Heb &#8220;certainly his deliverance [is] near to those who fear him.&#8221;</div><div class="p">then his splendor will again appear in our land.#tn Heb &#8220;to dwell, glory, in our land.&#8221; &#8220;Glory&#8221; is the subject of the infinitive. The infinitive with -&#1500;&#1456; (l&#255;), &#8220;to dwell,&#8221; probably indicates result here (&#8220;then&#8221;). When God delivers his people and renews his relationship with them, he will once more reveal his royal splendor in the land.</div><div class="p">10 Loyal love and faithfulness meet;#tn The psalmist probably uses the perfect verbal forms in v. 10 in a dramatic or rhetorical manner, describing what he anticipates as if it were already occurring or had already occurred.</div><div class="p">deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss.#sn Deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss. The psalmist personifies these abstract qualities to emphasize that God&#8217;s loyal love and faithfulness will yield deliverance and peace for his people.</div><div class="p">11 Faithfulness grows from the ground,</div><div class="p">and deliverance looks down from the sky.#sn The psalmist already sees undeniable signs of God&#8217;s faithfulness and expects deliverance to arrive soon.</div><div class="p">12 Yes, the Lord will bestow his good blessings,#tn Heb &#8220;what is good.&#8221;</div><div class="p">and our land will yield#tn Both &#8220;bestow&#8221; and &#8220;yield&#8221; translate the same Hebrew verb (&#1504;&#1464;&#1514;&#1463;&#1503;, natan). The repetition of the word emphasizes that agricultural prosperity is the direct result of divine blessing. its crops.</div><div class="p">13 Deliverance goes#tn Or &#8220;will go.&#8221; before him,</div><div class="p">and prepares#tn Or &#8220;will prepare.&#8221; a pathway for him.#tn Heb &#8220;and it prepares for a way his footsteps.&#8221; Some suggest emending &#1493;&#1456;&#1497;&#1464;&#1513;&#1474;&#1461;&#1501; (v&#255;yasem, &#8220;and prepares&#8221;) to &#1493;&#1456;&#1513;&#1473;&#1464;&#1500;&#1493;&#1465;&#1501; (v&#255;shalom, &#8220;and peace&#8221;) since &#8220;deliverance&#8221; and &#8220;peace&#8221; are closely related earlier in v. 13. This could be translated, &#8220;and peace [goes ahead, making] a pathway for his footsteps&#8221; (cf. NEB).</div>
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O LORD, you showed favor to your land;
you restored the well-being of Jacob.
You pardoned the wrongdoing of your people;
you forgave all their sin. (Selah)
You withdrew all your fury;
you turned back from your raging anger.
Restore us, O God our deliverer!
Do not be displeased with us!
Will you stay mad at us forever?
Will you remain angry throughout future generations?
Will you not revive us once more?
Then your people will rejoice in you!
O LORD, show us your loyal love!
Bestow on us your deliverance!
I will listen to what God the LORD says.
For he will make peace with his people, his faithful followers.
Yet they must not return to their foolish ways.
Certainly his loyal followers will soon experience his deliverance;
then his splendor will again appear in our land.
Loyal love and faithfulness meet;
deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss.
Faithfulness grows from the ground,
and deliverance looks down from the sky.
Yes, the LORD will bestow his good blessings,
and our land will yield its crops.
Deliverance goes before him,
and prepares a pathway for him.

සවන් දෙන්න Psalms 85