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Psalm 85:7-9
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 85:7-9
New Catholic Bible
7 Will you not once again give us life
so that your people may exult in you?
8 Show us, O Lord, your kindness[a]
and grant us your salvation.
9 [b]I will listen for God’s response;
surely the Lord will proclaim peace to his people, his saints,[c]
to those who turn to him with their whole heart.
Footnotes
- Psalm 85:8 Kindness: see note on Ps 6:5.
- Psalm 85:9 God answers the prayer through a reassuring word of a priest or Levite.
- Psalm 85:9 Saints: see notes on Pss 4:4; 16:3; 34:10. To those . . . heart: other translations possible are: “and to those who turn from folly” and “but let them not return to folly” (the Hebrew word for “folly” includes the connotation of moral deficiency).
