诗篇 85:1

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

可拉子孫的詩，交給詩班長。耶和華啊！你恩待了你的地，恢復了雅各的產業（“恢復了雅各的產業”或譯：“領回了雅各被擄的”）。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
（ 可 拉 後 裔 的 诗 ， 交 与 伶 长 。 ） 耶 和 华 啊 ， 你 已 经 向 你 的 地 施 恩 ， 救 回 被 掳 的 雅 各 。

Contextual Overview

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For the director of music. A psalm of the sons of Korah.

Lord , you have been kind to your land; you brought back the people of Jacob. ² You forgave the guilt of the people and covered all their sins. Selah ³ You stopped all your anger; you turned back from your strong anger. ⁴ God our Savior, bring us back again. Stop being angry with us. ⁵ Will you be angry with us forever? Will you stay angry from now on? ⁶ Won't you give us life again? Your people would rejoice in you. ⁷ Lord , show us your love, and save us.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Lord: Leviticus 26:42, Joel 2:18, Zechariah 1:16

favourable unto: or, well pleased with, Psalms 77:7

thou hast: Psalms 14:7, Psalms 126:1, Psalms 126:2, Ezra 1:11, Ezra 2:1, Jeremiah 30:18, Jeremiah 31:23, Ezekiel 39:25, Joel 3:1

Reciprocal: Exodus 6:24 - Korah Leviticus 25:23 - for ever Numbers 16:32 - all the Deuteronomy 32:43 - will be 1 Chronicles 6:37 - Korah Psalms 42:1 - the sons Psalms 53:6 - bringeth Isaiah 12:1 - though Jeremiah 33:7 - will cause Ezekiel 16:53 - bring Zephaniah 2:7 - turn

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land,.... The land of Canaan, which the Lord chose for the people of Israel, and put them into the possession of it; and where he himself chose to dwell, and had a sanctuary built for him; and therefore though the whole earth is his, yet this was his land and inheritance in a peculiar manner, as it is called, Jeremiah 16:18, the inhabitants of it are meant, to whom the Lord was favourable, or whom he graciously accepted, and was well pleased with and delighted in, as appears by his choosing them above all people to be his people; by bringing them out of Egyptian bondage, by leading them through the Red sea and wilderness, by feeding and protecting them there; and by bringing them into the land of Canaan, a land flowing with milk and honey, and settling them in it; and by many temporal blessings, and also spiritual ones, as his word and ordinances; but especially by sending his own Son, the Messiah and Saviour, unto them; and which perhaps is what is here principally intended:

thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob; or, "the captives" m of Jacob; in a temporal sense, both out of Egypt, and out of Babylon; and in a spiritual sense from sin, Satan, and the law; the special people of God often go by the name of Jacob, and these are captives to the above mentioned; and redemption by Christ is a deliverance of them from their captivity, or a bringing of it back, for he has led captivity captive; and in consequence of this they are put into a state of freedom, liberty is proclaimed to these captives, and they are delivered, and all as the fruit and effect of divine favour.

m שבות "captivam turbam", Junius Tremellius i. e. "captivos", Gejerus, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land - Margin, “well pleased with.” The idea is that he had been kind or propitious to the nation; to wit, on some former occasion. So Luther, (vormals) “formerly.” The reference is to some previous period in their history, when he had exercised his power in their behalf.

Thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob - That is, at the time referred to. It is not necessary to suppose that the allusion is to the period immediately preceding the time when the psalm was composed, but it may have been any period in their history. Nor is it necessary to suppose that the people had been removed from their land at the time, for all that would be necessary to suppose in interpreting the language would be that the land had been invaded, even though the inhabitants still remained in it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

PSALM LXXXV

Thanksgiving to God for restoration to the Divine favour, 1-3;

prayer for farther mercies, 4-7;

the psalmist waits for a gracious answer in full confidence of

receiving it, 8.

He receives the assurance of the greatest blessings, and exults

in the prospect, 9-13.

NOTES ON PSALM LXXXV

The title of this Psalm we have seen before, Psalms 42:1. As to the time, it seems to have been written during, or even after, the return from the Babylonish captivity. In the three first verses the psalmist acknowledges the goodness of God in bringing the people back to their own land; he next prays to God to restore them to their ancient prosperity. In the spirit of prophecy, he waits on God, and hears him promise to do it; and then exults in the prospect of so great a good. The whole Psalm seems also to have a reference to the redemption of the world by Jesus Christ.

Verse Psalms 85:1. Lord, thou hast been favourable — Literally, Thou hast been well pleased with thy land.

Thou hast brought back the captivity — This seems to fix the time of the Psalm to be after the return of the Jews from Babylon.