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- LORD, YOU have [at last] been favorable and have dealt graciously with Your land [of Canaan]; You have brought back [from Babylon] the captives of Jacob.
- 2
- You have forgiven and taken away the iniquity of Your people, You have covered all their sin. Selah [pause, and calmly realize what that means]!
- 3
- You have withdrawn all Your wrath and indignation, You have turned away from the blazing anger [which You had let loose].
- 4
- Restore us, O God of our salvation, and cause Your anger toward us to cease [forever].
- 5
- Will You be angry with us forever? Will You prolong Your anger [and disfavor] and spread it out to all generations?
- 6
- Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?
- 7
- Show us Your mercy and loving-kindness, O Lord, and grant us Your salvation.
- 8
- I will listen [with expectancy] to what God the Lord will say, for He will speak peace to His people, to His saints (those who are in right standing with Him)--but let them not turn again to [self-confident] folly.
- 9
- Surely His salvation is near to those who reverently and worshipfully fear Him, [and is ready to be appropriated] that [the manifest presence of God, His] glory may tabernacle and abide in our land.
- 10
- Mercy and loving-kindness and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
- 11
- Truth shall spring up from the earth, and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
- 12
- Yes, the Lord will give what is good, and our land will yield its increase.
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- Righteousness shall go before Him and shall make His footsteps a way in which to walk.
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