85 O Yahweh, you favored your land.
You restored the fortunes^[b] of Jacob.
² You took away the guilt^[c] of your people;
you covered all their sin. Selah
³ You withdrew all your wrath;
you turned from your burning anger.
⁴ Restore us, O God of our salvation,
and annul your vexation with us.
⁵ Will you be angry against us forever?
Will you prolong your anger generation after generation?
⁶ Will you not again revive us,
that your people might rejoice in you?
⁷ Show us, O Yahweh, your loyal love,
and grant us your salvation.
⁸ I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak,
because he will speak peace
to his people, even his faithful ones,^[d]
but let them not return to folly.
⁹ Surely his salvation is near for those who fear him,
that glory may abide in our land.
¹⁰ Loyal love and faithfulness^[e] will meet one another;
righteousness and peace will kiss.
¹¹ Faithfulness^[f] will sprout from the ground,
and righteousness will look down from heaven.
¹² Yes, Yahweh will give what is good,
and our land will give its produce.
¹³ Righteousness will go before him,
and it will make his steps a pathway.