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Selected Verse: Psalms 85:4 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 85:4 |
Strong Concordance |
Turn [07725] us, O God [0430] of our salvation [03468], and cause thine anger [03708] toward us to cease [06565]. |
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King James |
Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| having still occasion for the anger which is deprecated. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Turn us, O God of our salvation - The God from whom salvation must come, and on whom we are dependent for it. The prayer here is, "turn us;" turn us from our sins; bring us to repentance; make us willing to forsake every evil way; and enable us to do it. This is the proper spirit always in prayer. The first thing is not that he would take away his wrath, but that he would dispose us to forsake our sins, and to turn to himself; that we may be led to abandon that which has brought his displeasure upon us, and then that he will cause his anger toward us to cease. We have no authority for asking God to turn away his judgments unless we are willing to forsake our sins; and in all cases we can hope for the divine interposition and mercy, when the judgments of God are upon us, only as we are willing to turn from our iniquities.
And cause thine anger toward us to cease - The word used here, and rendered "cause to cease" - פרר pârar - means properly to break; then, to violate; and then, to annul, or to bring to an end. The idea here is, that if they were turned from sin, the cause of his anger would be removed, and would cease of course. Compare Psa 80:3. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| The poet now prays God to manifest anew the loving-kindness He has shown formerly. In the sense of "restore us again," שׁוּבנוּ does not form any bond of connection between this and the preceding strophe; but it does it, according to Ges. 121, 4, it is intended in the sense of (אלינוּ) שׁוּב לנוּ, turn again to us. The poet prays that God would manifest Himself anew to His people as He has done in former days. Thus the transition from the retrospective perfects to the petition is, in the presence of the existing extremity, adequately brought about. Assuming the post-exilic origin of the Psalm, we see from this strophe that it was composed at a period in which the distance between the temporal and spiritual condition of Israel and the national restoration, promised together with the termination of the Exile, made itself distinctly felt. On עמּנוּ (in relation to and bearing towards us) beside כּעסך, cf. Job 10:17, and also on הפר, Psa 89:34. In the question in Psa 89:6 reminding God of His love and of His promise, משׁך has the signification of constant endless continuing or pursuing, as in Psa 36:11. The expression in Psa 85:7 is like Psa 71:20, cf. Psa 80:19; שׁוּב is here the representative of rursus, Ges. 142. ישׁעך from ישׁע, like קצפּך in Psa 38:2, has ĕ (cf. the inflexion of פּרי and חק) instead of the ı̆ in אלהי ישׁענוּ. Here at the close of the strophe the prayer turns back inferentially to this attribute of God. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Turn us - Restore us to our former tranquillity, and free us from the troubles which we yet groan under. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Turn us, O God of our salvation - Thou hast turned our captivity; now convert our souls. And they find a reason for their prayer in an attribute of their God; the God of their salvation. And as his work was to save, they beg that his anger towards them might cease. The Israelites were not restored from their captivity all at once. A few returned with Zerubbabel; some more with Ezra and Nehemiah; but a great number still remained in Babylonia, Media, Assyria, Egypt, and other parts. The request of the psalmist is, to have a complete restoration of all the Israelites from all places of their dispersion. |
3 Turn us again [07725], O God [0430], and cause thy face [06440] to shine [0215]; and we shall be saved [03467].
2 For thine arrows [02671] stick fast [05181] in me, and thy hand [03027] presseth me sore [05181].
19 Turn us again [07725], O LORD [03068] God [0430] of hosts [06635], cause thy face [06440] to shine [0215]; and we shall be saved [03467].
20 Thou, which hast shewed [07200] me great [07227] and sore [07451] troubles [06869], shalt quicken [02421] me again [07725], and shalt bring me up [05927] again [07725] from the depths [08415] of the earth [0776].
7 Shew [07200] us thy mercy [02617], O LORD [03068], and grant [05414] us thy salvation [03468].
11 Let not the foot [07272] of pride [01346] come [0935] against me, and let not the hand [03027] of the wicked [07563] remove [05110] me.
6 For who in the heaven [07834] can be compared [06186] unto the LORD [03068]? who among the sons [01121] of the mighty [0410] can be likened [01819] unto the LORD [03068]?
34 My covenant [01285] will I not break [02490], nor alter [08138] the thing that is gone out [04161] of my lips [08193].
17 Thou renewest [02318] thy witnesses [05707] against me, and increasest [07235] thine indignation [03708] upon me [05978]; changes [02487] and war [06635] are against me.