Psalm 85:1

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Summary

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.} LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.

Lord

Leviticus 26:42

Joel 2:18

Zechariah 1:16

Favourable unto

Psalm 77:7

Thou hast

Bible References

Lord

then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also My covenant with Isaac, and My covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land.

Then the Lord

will be zealous for His land

And will have pity on His people.

Therefore thus says the Lord, “I will return to Jerusalem with compassion; My house will be built in it,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and a measuring line will be stretched over Jerusalem.”’

Favourable unto

Will the Lord reject forever?
And will He never be favorable again?

Thou hast

Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!
When the Lord

restores His captive people,

Jacob will rejoice, Israel will be glad.

A Song of Ascents.
When the Lord

brought back the captive ones of Zion,

We were like those who dream.

All the articles of gold and silver numbered 5,400. Sheshbazzar brought them all up with the exiles who went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

Now these are the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his city.

“Thus says the Lord,
‘Behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob
And have compassion on his dwelling places;
And the city will be rebuilt on its ruin,
And the palace will stand on its rightful place.

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Once again they will speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities when I restore their fortunes,
‘The Lord bless you, O abode of righteousness,
O holy hill!’

Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Now I will

restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name.

“For behold, in those days and at that time,
When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,