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Will you not once again give us life
    so that your people may exult in you?
Show us, O Lord, your kindness[a]
    and grant us your salvation.
[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.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 85:8 Kindness: see note on Ps 6:5.
  2. Psalm 85:9 God answers the prayer through a reassuring word of a priest or Levite.
  3. 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).

Show us your unfailing love,(A) Lord,
    and grant us your salvation.(B)

I will listen to what God the Lord says;
    he promises peace(C) to his people, his faithful servants—
    but let them not turn to folly.(D)
Surely his salvation(E) is near those who fear him,
    that his glory(F) may dwell in our land.

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