The Bible in Basic English BBE
Good News Translation GNT
1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah.> Lord, you were good to your land: changing the fate of Jacob.
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Lord, you have been merciful to your land; you have made Israel prosperous again.
2 The wrongdoing of your people had forgiveness; all their sin had been covered. (Selah.)
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You have forgiven your people's sins and pardoned all their wrongs.
3 You were no longer angry: you were turned from the heat of your wrath.
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You stopped being angry with them and held back your furious rage.
4 Come back to us, O God of our salvation, and be angry with us no longer.
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Bring us back, O God our savior, and stop being displeased with us!
5 Will you go on being angry with us for ever? will you keep your wrath against us through all the long generations?
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Will you be angry with us forever? Will your anger never cease?
6 Will you not give us life again, so that your people may be glad in you?
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Make us strong again, and we, your people, will praise you.
7 Let us see your mercy, O Lord, and give us your salvation.
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Show us your constant love, O Lord, and give us your saving help.
8 I will give ear to the voice of the Lord; for he will say words of peace to his people and to his saints; but let them not go back to their foolish ways.
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I am listening to what the Lord God is saying; he promises peace to us, his own people, if we do not go back to our foolish ways.
9 Truly, his salvation is near to his worshippers; so that glory may be in our land.
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Surely he is ready to save those who honor him, and his saving presence will remain in our land.
10 Mercy and faith have come together; righteousness and peace have given one another a kiss.
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Love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace will embrace.
11 Faith comes up from the earth like a plant; righteousness is looking down from heaven.
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Human loyalty will reach up from the earth, and God's righteousness will look down from heaven.
12 The Lord will give what is good; and our land will give its increase.
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The Lord will make us prosperous, and our land will produce rich harvests.
13 Righteousness will go before him, making a way for his footsteps.
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Righteousness will go before the Lord and prepare the path for him.
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Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.