Psalms 85:5
Will You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations?
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
In Context
4Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put away Your displeasure toward us.
6Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?
Cross References
Psalms 60:3You have shown Your people hardship; we are staggered from the wine You made us drink.
Psalms 77:9Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has His anger shut off His compassion?” Selah
Psalms 80:4O LORD God of Hosts, how long will Your anger smolder against the prayers of Your people?
Isaiah 64:9Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!
Micah 7:18Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
Revelation 18:21Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again.
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 →