A psalm written by one of the descendants of Korah for the choir director

85 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 forgave us, your people, for the sins that we had committed;

you pardoned us for all our sins [DOU].

(Think about that!)

3 You stopped being angry with us

and turned away from severely punishing us.

4 Now, God, the one who saves/rescues us, ◄restore us/make us prosperous again►

and stop being angry with us!

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

6 Please enable us [RHQ] to prosper again

in order that we, your people, will rejoice about what you have done for us.

7 Yahweh, by rescuing us from our troubles/difficulties,

show us that you faithfully love us.

8 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 He is surely ready to save/rescue those who revere him,

in order that his glory/splendor will be seen in our land.

10 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 Here on earth, we will ◄be loyal to/continually believe in► God,

and from heaven, God will act justly/fairly toward us.

12 Yes, Yahweh will do good things for us,

and there will be great harvests in our land.

13 Yahweh always acts righteously [PRS, MET];

he acts righteously wherever he goes.