Return from captivity foretold -- Reign of righteousness. (To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.)

¹⁾Lord, thou has been favorable unto thy land; thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.

²⁾Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.

³⁾Thou hast taken away all thy wrath; thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.

⁴⁾Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.

⁵⁾Wilt thou be angry with us forever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?

⁶⁾Wilt thou not revive us again; that thy people may rejoice in thee?

⁷⁾Show us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation.

⁸⁾I will hear what God the Lord will speak; for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.

⁹⁾Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.

¹⁰⁾Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

¹¹⁾Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

¹²⁾Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.

¹³⁾Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.