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Learning & Values » Texts & Writings » Classic Texts » The Torah (Jewish Bible) » Scriptures » Psalms

Tehillim - Psalms - Chapter 85

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1. For the conductor, a song of the sons of Korah.		א. לַמְנַצֵּחַ \| לִבְנֵי קֹרַח מִזְמוֹר:
2. O Lord, You have appeased Your land; You have returned the Captivity of Jacob.		ב. רָצִיתָ יְהֹוָה אַרְצֶךָ שַׁבְתָּ שְׁבִית יַעֲקֹב:
O Lord, You have appeased Your land, etc.: If You have returned the captivity of Jacob and forgiven their iniquity, and have concealed their sin and withdrawn Your wrath from them and retreated from Your fierce anger, then You have appeased Your land, and Your world will be appeased. But as long as You do not do this, Your land and Your world will not be appeased.
3. You have forgiven the iniquity of Your people; You have concealed all their sin forever.		ג. נָשָׂאתָ עֲו‍ֹן עַמֶּךָ כִּסִּיתָ כָל חַטָּאתָם סֶלָה:
4. You have taken in all Your wrath; You have retreated from the fierceness of Your anger.		ד. אָסַפְתָּ כָל עֶבְרָתֶךָ הֱשִׁיבוֹתָ מֵחֲרוֹן אַפֶּךָ:
5. Return us, O God of our salvation and revoke Your anger with us.		ה. שׁוּבֵנוּ אֱלֹהֵי יִשְׁעֵנוּ וְהָפֵר כַּעַסְךָ עִמָּנוּ:
Return us: You return and bring us back.
6. Will You be wroth with us forever? Will You extend Your anger to generation after generation?		ו. הַלְעוֹלָם תֶּאֱנַף בָּנוּ תִּמְשֹׁךְ אַפְּךָ לְדֹר וָדֹר:
7. Will You not return and revive us so that Your people will rejoice with You?		ז. הֲלֹא אַתָּה תָּשׁוּב תְּחַיֵּינוּ וְעַמְּךָ יִשְׂמְחוּ בָךְ:
Will You not: ultimately return and revive us, for [so] You promised us through Your prophet.
8. Show us, O Lord, Your kindness, and Your salvation You shall give to us.		ח. הַרְאֵנוּ יְהֹוָה חַסְדֶּךָ וְיֶשְׁעֲךָ תִּתֶּן לָנוּ:
9. I shall hear what God will speak when He speaks peace to His people and to His pious men, and they will not return to folly.		ט. אֶשְׁמֳעָה מַה יְדַבֵּר הָאֵל \| יְהֹוָה כִּי יְדַבֵּר שָׁלוֹם אֶל עַמּוֹ וְאֶל חֲסִידָיו וְאַל יָשׁוּבוּ לְכִסְלָה:
I shall hear what God will speak: I shall merit to hear what the Holy One, blessed be He, will speak when He speaks peace to His people.
to folly: Heb. לכסלה, to foolishness, to sin before Him.
10. Truly, His salvation is near those who fear Him, so that His glory dwell in our land.		י. אַךְ \| קָרוֹב לִירֵאָיו יִשְׁעוֹ לִשְׁכֹּן כָּבוֹד בְּאַרְצֵנוּ:
11. Kindness and truth have met; righteousness and peace have kissed.		יא. חֶסֶד וֶאֱמֶת נִפְגָּשׁוּ צֶדֶק וְשָׁלוֹם נָשָׁקוּ:
Kindness and truth have met: That Israel will speak truth, and from heaven kindness will meet them.
righteousness and peace have kissed: The righteousness [or charity] that Israel was performing and the peace from the Holy One, blessed be He, will kiss one another, i.e., the act of charity will be peace (Isa. 32:12).
12. Truth will sprout from the earth, and righteousness will look down from heaven.		יב. אֱמֶת מֵאֶרֶץ תִּצְמָח וְצֶדֶק מִשָּׁמַיִם נִשְׁקָף:
Truth will sprout from the earth, etc.: When Israel will speak truth, the charity that they perform on earth will look down from heaven.
13. God too will give good, and our land will give its produce.		יג. גַּם יְהֹוָה יִתֵּן הַטּוֹב וְאַרְצֵנוּ תִּתֵּן יְבוּלָהּ:
God too will give good: He will open His treasury, the heavens, to give rain, in order that His land yield its produce.
14. Righteousness will go before him, and He will place it on the way of his steps.		יד. צֶדֶק לְפָנָיו יְהַלֵּךְ וְיָשֵׂם לְדֶרֶךְ פְּעָמָיו:
and He will place it on the way of his steps: And the Holy One, blessed be He, will place the righteousness in the ways of his steps, with which he leads his sons.

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