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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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, 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 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.
- Ps 25:2My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.
- Ps 80:19Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
- 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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