The Message Bible MSG
King James Version KJV
1 God, you smiled on your good earth! You brought good times back to Jacob!
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LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
2 You lifted the cloud of guilt from your people, you put their sins far out of sight.
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Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
3 You took back your sin-provoked threats, you cooled your hot, righteous anger.
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Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
4 Help us again, God of our help; don't hold a grudge against us forever.
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Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
5 You aren't going to keep this up, are you? scowling and angry, year after year?
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Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
6 Why not help us make a fresh start - a resurrection life? Then your people will laugh and sing!
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Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
7 Show us how much you love us, God! Give us the salvation we need!
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Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.
8 I can't wait to hear what he'll say. God's about to pronounce his people well, The holy people he loves so much, so they'll never again live like fools.
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I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
9 See how close his salvation is to those who fear him? Our country is home base for Glory!
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Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
10 Love and Truth meet in the street, Right Living and Whole Living embrace and kiss!
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Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
11 Truth sprouts green from the ground, Right Living pours down from the skies!
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Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
12 Oh yes! God gives Goodness and Beauty; our land responds with Bounty and Blessing.
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Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.
13 Right Living strides out before him, and clears a path for his passage.
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Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.
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