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¹ O Lord, you showed favor to your land;
you restored the well-being of Jacob.
² You pardoned the wrongdoing of your people;
you forgave all their sin. (Selah)
³ You withdrew all your fury;
you turned back from your raging anger.
⁴ Restore us, O God our deliverer!
Do not be displeased with us!
⁵ Will you stay mad at us forever?
Will you remain angry throughout future generations?
⁶ Will you not revive us once more?
Then your people will rejoice in you!
⁷ O Lord, show us your loyal love!
Bestow on us your deliverance!
⁸ I will listen to what God the Lord says.
For he will make peace with his people, his faithful followers.
Yet they must not return to their foolish ways.
⁹ Certainly his loyal followers will soon experience his deliverance;
then his splendor will again appear in our land.
¹⁰ Loyal love and faithfulness meet;
deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss.
¹¹ Faithfulness grows from the ground,
and deliverance looks down from the sky.
¹² Yes, the Lord will bestow his good blessings,
and our land will yield its crops.
¹³ Deliverance goes before him,
and prepares a pathway for him.