Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.
Parallel translations
- KJV Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
- BSB Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put away Your displeasure toward us.
- NKJV Restore us, O God of our salvation, And cause Your anger toward us to cease.
- NASB ¶Restore us, God of our salvation, And cause Your indignation toward us to cease.
- NLT Now restore us again, O God of our salvation. Put aside your anger against us once more.
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- Ps 80:3Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
- Lam 5:21Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we shall be turned. Renew our days as of old.
- Ps 80:7Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
- Mic 7:7But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
- Ps 80:19Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
- Ps 25:2My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.
- Ps 27:1By David. Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
- Mic 7:18–20Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
- Mal 4:6He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”
- Dan 9:16Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.
- Jer 31:18“I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
- John 4:22You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
- Ps 78:38But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.
- Isa 10:25For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”
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