Psalm 85

To the chief Musician, A Psalm ||for the sons of Korah.

1  Lord, thou hast been ||Favourable unto thy land:

Thou hast abrought back the captivity of Jacob.

2  Thou hast bforgiven the iniquity of thy people,

Thou hast bcovered all their sin. Selah.

3  Thou hast taken away all thy wrath:

||Thou hast cturned dthyself from the fierceness of thine anger.

4  eTurn us, O God of our salvation,

fAnd cause thine anger toward us to cease.

5  gWilt thou be angry with us for ever?

Wilt thou hdraw out thine anger to all generations?

6  Wilt thou not irevive us again:

That jthy people may rejoice in thee?

7  Shew us thy mercy, O Lord,

And grant us thy salvation.

8  kI will hear what God the Lord will speak:

For lhe will speak peace unto his people, and to mhis saints:

But let them not nturn again to ofolly.

9  Surely phis salvation is nigh them that fear him;

That qglory may dwell in our land.

10  rMercy and truth rrare met together;

sRighteousness and stpeace have kissed each other.

11  Truth shall uspring out of the earth;

And urighteousness shall look down from heaven.

12  Yea, xthe Lord shall give that which is good;

And your land shall yield her increase.

13  zRighteousness shall go before him;

And shall set us in the way of his steps.

Psalm 86

||A Prayer of David.

1  aBow down thine ear, O Lord, hear me:

For bI am poor and needy.

2  Preserve my soul; for I am ||holy:

O thou my God, save thy servant cthat trusteth in thee.

3  dBe merciful unto me, O Lord:

For eI cry unto thee ||daily.

4  Rejoice the soul of thy servant:

For funto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

5  For thou, Lord, art good, and ffready to forgive;

And gplenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

6  hGive ear, O Lord, unto my prayer;

And hiattend to the voice of my supplications.

7  jIn the day of my trouble I will call upon thee:

kFor thou wilt answer me.

8  lAmong the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord;

Neither are there any works mlike unto thy works.

9  All nations whom thou hast made nshall come

And oworship before thee, O Lord;

And shall glorify thy name.

10  For thou art pgreat, and qdoest wondrous things:

rThou art God alone.

11  sTeach me thy way, O Lord; tI will walk in thy truth:

Unite my heart to fear thy name.

12  I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart:

And I will glorify thy name for evermore.

13  For great is thy mercy toward me:

And thou hast udelivered my soul from vthe lowest ||hell.

14  O God, wthe proud are risen against me,

And the assemblies of †violent men have sought after my soul;

And have not set thee before them.

15  xBut thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious,

Longsuffering, and gplenteous in mercy and truth.

16  O yturn unto me, and dhave mercy upon me;

Give thy strength unto zthy servant,

And save zthe son of thine handmaid.

17  aShew me a token bfor good;

That they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed:

Because thou, Lord, hast cholpen me, and comforted me.

Psalm 87

*A Psalm or Song ||for the sons of Korah.

1  His afoundation is in bthe holy mountains.

2  The Lord cloveth the gates of Zion

More than all the dwellings of Jacob.

3  Glorious things are spoken of thee,

O dcity of God. Selah.

4  I will make mention of eRahab and fBabylon gto them that know me:

Behold Philistia, and Tyre, with hEthiopia;

This man was born ithere.

5  And of iZion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her:

And the highest himself shall establish her.

6  The Lord shall kcount, when he lwriteth up the people,

That this man was born there. Selah.

7  As well the singers as the mplayers on instruments shall be there:

All my springs are in thee.