Psalms 85:5
Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
In Context
4Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.
6Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?
Cross References
Psalms 60:3You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.
Psalms 77:9Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?” Selah.
Psalms 80:4LORD God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
Isaiah 64:9Don’t be furious, LORD. Don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people.
Micah 7:18Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
Revelation 18:21A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, “Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all.
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 →