Good News Translation GNT
Revised Standard Version RSV
1 Lord, you have been merciful to your land; you have made Israel prosperous again.
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To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. LORD, thou wast favorable to thy land; thou didst restore the fortunes of Jacob.
2 You have forgiven your people's sins and pardoned all their wrongs.
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Thou didst forgive the iniquity of thy people; thou didst pardon all their sin. [Selah]
3 You stopped being angry with them and held back your furious rage.
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Thou didst withdraw all thy wrath; thou didst turn from thy hot anger.
4 Bring us back, O God our savior, and stop being displeased with us!
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Restore us again, O God of our salvation, and put away thy indignation toward us!
5 Will you be angry with us forever? Will your anger never cease?
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Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? Wilt thou prolong thy anger to all generations?
6 Make us strong again, and we, your people, will praise you.
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Wilt thou not revive us again, that thy people may rejoice in thee?
7 Show us your constant love, O Lord, and give us your saving help.
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Show us thy steadfast love, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.
8 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.
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Let me hear what God the LORD will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints, to those who turn to him in their hearts.
9 Surely he is ready to save those who honor him, and his saving presence will remain in our land.
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Surely his salvation is at hand for those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.
10 Love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace will embrace.
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Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace will kiss each other.
11 Human loyalty will reach up from the earth, and God's righteousness will look down from heaven.
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Faithfulness will spring up from the ground, and righteousness will look down from the sky.
12 The Lord will make us prosperous, and our land will produce rich harvests.
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Yea, the LORD will give what is good, and our land will yield its increase.
13 Righteousness will go before the Lord and prepare the path for him.
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Righteousness will go before him, and make his footsteps a way.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.