Psalms 85:5
(85:6) Wilt thou be wroth with us for ever? wilt thou extend thy anger from generation to generation?
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
In Context
4(85:5) Return to us, O God of our salvation, and cause thy ill-will toward us to cease.
6(85:7) Wilt thou not [now] revive us again, that thy people may rejoice in thee?
Cross References
Psalms 60:3(60:5) Thou hast caused thy people to see hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of confusion.
Psalms 77:9(77:10) Hath God forgotten to be gracious? or hath he shut up in anger his mercies? Selah.
Psalms 80:4(80:5) O Lord of hosts, how long shall thy anger smoke against the prayer of thy people?
Isaiah 64:9(64:8) Be not wroth, O Lord, so very greatly, and do not for ever remember [our] iniquity: behold, look, we beseech thee, thy people are we all.
Micah 7:18Who is a god like unto thee, pardoning iniquity, and forgiving transgression to the residue of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in kindness.
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 →