Psalms 85
1A Prayer of David himself. Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear me. For I am needy and poor.
2Preserve my soul, for I am holy. My God, bring salvation to your servant who hopes in you.
3O Lord, be merciful to me, for I have cried out to you all day long.
4Give joy to the soul of your servant, for I have lifted up my soul to you, Lord.
5For you are sweet and mild, Lord, and plentiful in mercy to all who call upon you.
6Pay attention, Lord, to my prayer, and attend to the voice of my supplication.
7In the day of my tribulation, I cried out to you, because you heeded me.
8There is no one like you among the gods, O Lord, and there is no one like you in your works.
9All the nations, which you have made, will draw near and adore in your presence, O Lord. And they will glorify your name.
10For you are great, and you perform wonders. You alone are God.
11Lead me, O Lord, in your way, and I will walk in your truth. May my heart rejoice, so that it will fear your name.
12I will confess to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart. And I will glorify your name in eternity.
13For your mercy toward me is great, and you have rescued my soul from the lower part of Hell.
14O God, the iniquitous have risen up against me, and the synagogue of the powerful have sought my soul, and they have not placed you in their sight.
15And you, Lord God, are compassionate and merciful, being patient and full of mercy and truthful.
16Look down upon me and have mercy on me. Grant your authority to your servant, and bring salvation to the son of your handmaid.
17Make me a sign of what is good, so that those who hate me, may look and be confounded. For you, O Lord, have helped me and consoled me.
1Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
2Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
3Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
4Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
5Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
6Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
7Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation.
8I 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.
9Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
10Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
11Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
12Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.
13Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.