Psalms 85:5

"Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease."

Key Reflection

This verse prays for divine mercy and repentance, asking God to turn the people's hearts back to Him and to lift His anger, reflecting a plea for forgiveness and restoration. It underscores the importance of both God’s willingness to forgive and the need for the people to be willing to repent of their sins.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? -Thine anger is so long continued that it seems as if it would never cease. Wilt thou draw out thine anger -Wilt thou protract or prolong it? The idea is that of a determined purpose, in retaining his anger, as if his wrath would cease of necessity unless there were such a direct exercise of will. To all generations -literally, “from generation to generation.” That is, - so that not merely the generation which has sinned, and which has brought down these tokens of displeasure, shall suffer, but the next, and the next, and the next, forever.

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