Psalm - The Old Testament

¹ [For the choirmaster Of the sons of Korah Psalm] Yahweh, you are gracious to your land, you bring back the captives of Jacob,

² you take away the guilt of your people, you blot out all their sin.Pause

³ You retract all your anger, you renounce the heat of your fury.

⁴ Bring us back, God our Saviour, appease your indignation against us!

⁵ Will you be angry with us for ever? Will you prolong your wrath age after age?

⁶ Will you not give us life again, for your people to rejoice in you?

⁷ Show us, Lord, your faithful love, grant us your saving help.

⁸ I am listening. What is God's message? Yahweh's message is peace for his people, for his faithful, if only they renounce their folly.

⁹ His saving help is near for those who fear him, his glory will dwell in our land.

¹⁰ Faithful Love and Loyalty join together, Saving Justice and Peace embrace.

¹¹ Loyalty will spring up from the earth, and Justice will lean down from heaven.

¹² Yahweh will himself give prosperity, and our soil will yield its harvest.

¹³ Justice will walk before him, treading out a path.