Psalms 85

1 For the music director. A psalm of the descendants of Korah Lord, you have shown your kindness to your land; you have restored Jacob's prosperity.

Yahweh, you have been kind to [us people who live in] this land; you have enabled [us] Israeli people to become prosperous again.

2 You took away your people's guilt; you forgave all their sins. (Selah)

You forgave [us], your people, for the sins that we had committed; you pardoned [us] for all our sins [DOU].

3 You took back your fury; you turned away from your fierce anger.

You stopped being angry [with us] and turned away from severely punishing [us].

4 Bring us back to you, God of our salvation! Take away your anger towards us.

Now, God, the one who saves/rescues us, (restore us/make us prosperous again) and stop being angry with us!

5 Are you going to be furious with us forever? Will you stay angry with us for all future generations?

(Will you continue to be angry with us forever?/Please do not continue to be angry with us forever.) [DOU, RHQ]

6 Won't you restore our lives so your people can find happiness in you?

Please enable us [RHQ] to prosper again in order that [we], your people, will rejoice about what you [have done for us].

7 Show us your trustworthy love, Lord! Give us your salvation!

Yahweh, by rescuing us [from our troubles/difficulties], show us that you faithfully love us.

8 Let me hear what God has to say. God speaks peace to his people, to those who trust in him. But they must not return to their foolish ways.

I want to listen to what Yahweh [our] God says, because he promises/says that he will enable [us], his people, to live peacefully, if we do not return to doing foolish things.

9 Truly God's salvation is with those who do as he says. His glorious presence will live with us in our land.

He is surely ready to save/rescue those who revere him, in order that [his] glory/splendor will be seen in our land.

10 Trustworthiness and faithful love join together; goodness and peace have kissed each other.

[When that happens], he will both faithfully love us and faithfully [do for us what he promised to do] [PRS]; and we will act/behave righteously, and he will give us peace, which will be like a kiss that he gives us.

11 What is true grows up from the earth; what is right looks down from heaven.

Here on earth, we will (be loyal to/continually believe in) God, and from heaven, God will act justly/fairly [toward us].

12 The Lord will certainly give us all that is good, and our land will produce fine crops.

Yes, Yahweh will do good things [for us], and there will be great harvests in our land.

13 Truth and right go ahead of him to prepare a path for him to walk on.

[Yahweh always acts] righteously [PRS, MET]; he acts righteously wherever he goes.