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[For the choirmaster Of the sons of Korah Psalm] Yahweh, you are gracious to your land, you bring back the captives of Jacob,
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you take away the guilt of your people, you blot out all their sin. Pause
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You retract all your anger, you renounce the heat of your fury.
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Bring us back, God our Saviour, appease your indignation against us!
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Will you be angry with us for ever? Will you prolong your wrath age after age?
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Will you not give us life again, for your people to rejoice in you?
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Show us, Lord, your faithful love, grant us your saving help.
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I am listening. What is God's message? Yahweh's message is peace for his people, for his faithful, if only they renounce their folly.
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His saving help is near for those who fear him, his glory will dwell in our land.
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Faithful Love and Loyalty join together, Saving Justice and Peace embrace.
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Loyalty will spring up from the earth, and Justice will lean down from heaven.
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Yahweh will himself give prosperity, and our soil will yield its harvest.
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Justice will walk before him, treading out a path.
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