Psalms 85:4
\85:3\You were no longer angry: you were turned from the heat of your wrath.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
In Context
3\85:2\The wrongdoing of your people had forgiveness; all their sin had been covered. (Selah.)
5\85:4\Come back to us, O God of our salvation, and be angry with us no longer.
Cross References
Joshua 7:26And over him they put a great mass of stones, which is there to this day; then the heat of the Lord's wrath was turned away. So that place was named, The Valley of Achor, to this day.
Psalms 27:1Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?
Psalms 80:3\80:2\Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, let your strength be awake from sleep, and come as our salvation.
Psalms 80:19\80:18\So will we not be turned back from you; keep us in life, and we will give praise to your name.
Isaiah 12:1And in that day you will say I will give praise to you, O Lord; for though you were angry with me, your wrath is turned away, and I am comforted.
Lamentations 5:21Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 85:2-8
Prayer in Time of Trouble. 1 Lord , thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast 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 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger 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 revive us again: that… Read the whole commentary →