Psalms 85:2
1 You showed favor to Your land, O LORD; You restored Jacob from captivity.
You forgave the iniquity of Your people; You covered all their sin. Selah
3 You withheld all Your fury; You turned from Your burning anger.
4 Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put away Your displeasure toward us.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You forgave the iniquity of Your people; You covered all their sin. Selah
- KJV
- Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
- WEB
- You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. Selah.
- ASV
- Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; Thou hast covered all their sin. Selah
- DARBY
- Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
- BLB
- You have borne away the iniquity of Your people; You have covered all their sin. Selah
- ÅB
- Du tok bort ditt folks misgjerning, du skjulte all deres synd. Sela.
- OTB
- Du tilga Ditt folks misgjerning;
Du dekket over all deres synd.
Sela - B1930
- Du tok bort ditt folks misgjerning, du skjulte all deres synd. Sela.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
Read in contextPsalms 32:1
Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
Read in contextColossians 2:13
When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,
Read in contextJeremiah 50:20
In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, a search will be made for Israel’s guilt, but there will be none, and for Judah’s sins, but they will not be found; for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.
Read in contextNumbers 14:19
Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your loving devotion, just as You have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.”
Read in contextActs 13:39
Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.
Read in contextPsalms 79:8–9
Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low.
Read in contextPsalms 78:38
And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.
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