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