Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
Parallel translations
- WEB Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation 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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Quick answer
The psalmist prays for God to restore (turn) His people and to cease His present indignation. Genuine renewal requires God's own initiative.
Overview
Having recalled past mercy, the prayer now pleads for present restoration, asking God Himself to 'turn us' rather than relying on human effort. This acknowledges that repentance and revival are gifts of grace. It anticipates the New Testament truth that God grants both the turning of the heart and the removal of condemnation through Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- Ps 80:3Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
- Lam 5:21Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
- Ps 80:7Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
- Mic 7:7Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
- Ps 27:1The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
- Mic 7:18–20Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
- Ps 25:2O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.
- Ps 80:19Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
- Mal 4:6And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
- Dan 9:16O LORD, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
- Jer 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
- John 4:22Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
- Ps 78:38But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
- Isa 10:25For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
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