Psalm 85
O Lord, you were gracious to your land
: you restored the fortunes of Jacob.
You forgave the iniquity of your people
: and covered all their sin.
You put aside all your wrath
: and turned away from your fierce indignation.
Return to us again, O God our saviour
: and let your anger cease from us.
Will you be displeased with us for ever
: will you stretch out your wrath from one generation to another?
Will you not give us life again
: that your people may rejoice in you?
Show us your mercy, O Lord
: and grant us your salvation.
I will hear what the Lord God will speak
: for he will speak peace to his people,
to his faithful ones, whose hearts are turned to him.
Truly his salvation is near to those that fear him
: and his glory shall dwell in our land.
Mercy and truth are met together
: righteousness and peace have kissed each other;
Truth shall flourish out of the earth
: and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
The Lord will also give us all that is good
: and our land shall yield its plenty.
For righteousness shall go before him
: and tread the path before his feet.
Psalm 87
He has founded it upon a holy hill
: and the Lord loves the gates of Zion
more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Glorious things shall be spoken of you
: O Zion, city of our God.
I might speak of my kinsmen in Egypt or in Babylon
: in Philistia, Tyre or Nubia, where each was born.
But of Zion it shall be said
: many were born in her, he that is Most High has established her.
When the Lord draws up the record of the nations
: he shall take note where every man was born.
And the singers and the dancers together
: shall make their song to your name.