[1] O LORD, you showed favor to your land; you restored the well-being of Jacob. [2] You pardoned the wrongdoing of your people; you forgave all their sin. (Selah) [3] You withdrew all your fury; you turned back from your raging anger. [4] Restore us, O God our deliverer. Do not be displeased with us. [5] Will you stay mad at us forever? Will you remain angry throughout future generations? [6] Will you not revive us once more? Then your people will rejoice in you. [7] O LORD, show us your loyal love. Bestow on us your deliverance. [8] I will listen to what God the LORD says. For he will make peace with his people, his faithful followers. Yet they must not return to their foolish ways. [9] Certainly his loyal followers will soon experience his deliverance; then his splendor will again appear in our land. [10] Loyal love and faithfulness meet; deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss. [11] Faithfulness grows from the ground, and deliverance looks down from the sky. [12] Yes, the LORD will bestow his good blessings, and our land will yield its crops. [13] Deliverance goes before him, and prepares a pathway for him.
