Psalm 85-87

American Standard Version

85 Jehovah, thou hast been favorable unto thy land;
Thou hast ^[a]brought back the captivity of Jacob.
² Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people;
Thou hast covered all their sin. Selah
³ Thou hast taken away all thy wrath;
Thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
^4 [b]Turn us, O God of our salvation,
And cause thine indignation toward us to cease.
⁵ Wilt thou be angry with us for ever?
Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
⁶ Wilt thou not quicken us again,
That thy people may rejoice in thee?
⁷ Show us thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah,
And grant us thy salvation.
⁸ I will hear what God Jehovah will speak;
For he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints:
But let them not turn again to folly.
⁹ Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him,
That glory may dwell in our land.
¹⁰ Mercy and truth are met together;
Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
¹¹ Truth springeth out of the earth;
And righteousness hath looked down from heaven.
¹² Yea, Jehovah will give that which is good;
And our land shall yield its increase.
¹³ Righteousness shall go before him,
And shall ^[c]make his footsteps a way to walk in.

86 Bow down thine ear, O Jehovah, and answer me;
For I am poor and needy.
² Preserve my soul; for I am godly:
O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.
³ Be merciful unto me, O Lord;
For unto thee do I cry all the day long.
⁴ Rejoice the soul of thy servant;
For unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
⁵ For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive,
And abundant in lovingkindness unto all them that call upon thee.
⁶ Give ear, O Jehovah, unto my prayer;
And hearken unto the voice of my supplications.
⁷ In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee;
For thou wilt answer me.
⁸ There is none like unto thee among the gods, O Lord;
Neither are there any works like unto thy works.
⁹ All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord;
And they shall glorify thy name.
¹⁰ For thou art great, and doest wondrous things:
Thou art God alone.
¹¹ Teach me thy way, O Jehovah; I will walk in thy truth:
Unite my heart to fear thy name.
¹² I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart;
And I will glorify thy name for evermore.
¹³ For great is thy lovingkindness toward me;
And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
¹⁴ O God, the proud are risen up against me,
And a company of violent men have sought after my soul,
And have not set thee before them.
¹⁵ But thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious,
Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.
¹⁶ Oh turn unto me, and ^[d]have mercy upon me;
Give thy strength unto thy servant,
And save the son of thy handmaid.
¹⁷ Show me a token for good,
That they who hate me may see it, and be put to shame,
Because thou, Jehovah, hast helped me, and comforted me.

^[e]87 His foundation is in the holy mountains.
² Jehovah loveth the gates of Zion
More than all the dwellings of Jacob.
³ Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah
⁴ I will make mention of ^[f]Rahab and Babylon as among them that know me:
Behold, Philistia, and Tyre, with ^[g]Ethiopia:
This one was born there.
⁵ Yea, of Zion it shall be said, This one and that one was born in her;
And the Most High himself will establish her.
⁶ Jehovah will count, when he writeth up the peoples,
This one was born there. Selah
⁷ They that sing as well as ^[h]they that dance shall say,
All my fountains are in thee.