Psalms 85:6
\85:5\Will you go on being angry with us for ever? will you keep your wrath against us through all the long generations?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
In Context
5\85:4\Come back to us, O God of our salvation, and be angry with us no longer.
7\85:6\Will you not give us life again, so that your people may be glad in you?
Cross References
Ezra 9:8And now for a little time grace has come to us from the Lord our God, to let a small band of us get free and to give us a nail in his holy place, so that our God may give light to our eyes and a measure of new life in our prison chains.
Psalms 71:20You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.
Psalms 77:8\77:7\Will the Lord put me away for ever? will he be kind no longer?
Psalms 90:14In the morning give us your mercy in full measure; so that we may have joy and delight all our days.
Psalms 149:2Let Israel have joy in his maker; let the children of Zion be glad in their King.
Jeremiah 3:5Will he be angry for ever? will he keep his wrath to the end? These things you have said, and have done evil and have had your way.
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 →