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Contemporary English Version

Psalms 85:3

Your fierce anger is no longer aimed at us.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Anger;   God Continued...;   Intercession;   Nation;   Patriotism;   Sin;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Wrath, Wrath of God;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Joy;   Korah, Korahites;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Korah;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Heat;   Korahites;   Providence;   Psalms, Book of;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for May 2;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You withdrew all your fury;you turned from your burning anger.
Hebrew Names Version
You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.
King James Version
Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
English Standard Version
You withdrew all your wrath; you turned from your hot anger.
New Century Version
You stopped all your anger; you turned back from your strong anger.
New English Translation
You withdrew all your fury; you turned back from your raging anger.
Amplified Bible
You have withdrawn all Your wrath, You have turned away from Your burning anger.
New American Standard Bible
You withdrew all Your fury; You turned away from Your burning anger.
World English Bible
You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou hast withdrawen all thine anger, and hast turned backe fro the fiercenes of thy wrath.
Legacy Standard Bible
You withdrew all Your fury;You turned back from Your burning anger.
Berean Standard Bible
You withheld all Your fury; You turned from Your burning anger.
Complete Jewish Bible
taken away the guilt of your people, pardoned all their sin, (Selah)
Darby Translation
Thou hast withdrawn all thy wrath; thou hast turned from the fierceness of thine anger.
Easy-to-Read Version
You stopped being angry with them. Your terrible anger has gone away.
George Lamsa Translation
Thou hast taken away all thy wrath; thou hast withdrawn the fierceness of thine anger.
Good News Translation
You stopped being angry with them and held back your furious rage.
Lexham English Bible
You withdrew all your wrath; you turned from your burning anger.
Literal Translation
You gathered all of Your wrath; You turned from the heat of Your anger.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Sela. Thou tokest awaye all thy displeasure, & turnedest thy self from thy wrothful indignacion.
American Standard Version
Thou hast taken away all thy wrath; Thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
Bible in Basic English
You were no longer angry: you were turned from the heat of your wrath.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of Thy people, Thou hast pardoned all their sin. Selah
King James Version (1611)
Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thy selfe from the fiercenesse of thine anger.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou hast taken away al thy displeasure: and turned thy selfe from thy wrathfull indignation.
English Revised Version
Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou hast aswagid al thin ire; thou hast turned awei fro the ire of thin indignacioun.
Update Bible Version
You have taken away all your wrath; You have turned [yourself] from the fierceness of your anger.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thou hast taken away all thy wrath; thou hast turned [thyself] from the fierceness of thy anger.
New King James Version
You have taken away all Your wrath; You have turned from the fierceness of Your anger.
New Living Translation
You held back your fury. You kept back your blazing anger.
New Life Bible
You have taken away all Your anger. You have turned away from Your burning anger.
New Revised Standard
You withdrew all your wrath; you turned from your hot anger.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou hast withdrawn all thine indignation, Thou hast ceased from the glow of thing anger.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(84-4) Thou hast mitigated all thy anger: thou hast turned away from the wrath of thy indignation.
Revised Standard Version
Thou didst withdraw all thy wrath; thou didst turn from thy hot anger.
Young's Literal Translation
Thou hast gathered up all Thy wrath, Thou hast turned back from the fierceness of Thine anger.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
You withdrew all Your fury; You turned away from Your burning anger.

Contextual Overview

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(A psalm by the people of Korah for the music leader.)

Our Lord , you have blessed your land and made all go well for Jacob's descendants. 2 You have forgiven the sin and taken away the guilt of your people. 3 Your fierce anger is no longer aimed at us. 4 Our Lord and our God, you save us! Please bring us back home and don't be angry. 5 Will you always be angry with us and our families? 6 Won't you give us fresh life and let your people be glad because of you? 7 Show us your love and save us!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

taken: Isaiah 6:7, Isaiah 12:1, Isaiah 54:7-10, John 1:29

turned: etc. or, turned thine anger from waxing hot, Exodus 32:11, Exodus 32:22, Deuteronomy 13:17

Reciprocal: Exodus 32:12 - Turn from Numbers 25:4 - that the fierce Judges 3:8 - was hot 2 Chronicles 6:21 - forgive Isaiah 27:4 - Fury Jeremiah 33:8 - General Zephaniah 3:15 - hath taken

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou hast taken away all thy wrath,.... Or "gathered" n it; sin occasions wrath, and the people of God are as deserving of it as others; but the Lord has gathered it up, and poured it forth upon his Son, and their surety; hence nothing of this kind shall ever fall upon them, either here or hereafter; and it is taken away from them, so as to have no sense, apprehension, or conscience of it, which before the law had wrought in them, when pardon is applied unto them, which is what is here meant; see Isaiah 12:1,

thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger; the anger of God is very fierce against sin and sinners; it is poured forth like fire, and there is no abiding it; but, with respect to the Lord's people, it is pacified by the death of his Son; or he is pacified towards them for all that they have done, for the sake of his righteousness and sacrifice; and which appears to them when he manifests his love and pardoning grace to their souls; see Ezekiel 16:63.

n אספת "collegisti", Montanus, Gejerus, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou hast taken away all thy wrath - That is, formerly; on the occasion referred to. Thou didst so deal with thy people as to make it evident that thou didst cherish no anger or displeasure against them.

Thou hast turned thyself ... - Margin, “thine anger from waxing hot.” Literally, Thou didst turn from the heat of thine anger. His indignation was withdrawn, and he was again at peace with them. It is this fact, drawn from the former history of the people, which constitutes the basis of the appeal which follows.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 85:3. Thou hast taken away — אספת asaphta, "Thou hast gathered up all thy wrath." This carries on the metaphor in the second verse: "Thou hast collected all thy wrath, and carried it away with all our iniquities."


 
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