1For the music director <05329>; written by the Korahites <07141> <01121>, a psalm <04210>. O Lord <03068>, you showed favor <07521> to your land <0776>; you restored <07725> the well-being <07622> of Jacob <03290>.
2You pardoned <05375> the wrongdoing <05771> of your people <05971>; you forgave <03680> all <03605> their sin <02403>. (Selah <05542>)
3You withdrew <0622> all <03605> your fury <05678>; you turned back <07725> from your raging <02740> anger <0639>.
4Restore <07725> us, O God <0430> our deliverer <03468>! Do not <06565> be displeased <03708> with <05973> us!
5Will you stay mad <0599> at us forever <05769>? Will you remain <04900> angry <0639> throughout <01755> future generations <01755>?
6Will you <0859> not <03808> revive <02421> us once more <07725>? Then your people <05971> will rejoice <08055> in you!
7O Lord <03068>, show <07200> us your loyal love <02617>! Bestow <05414> on us your deliverance <03468>!
8I will listen <08085> to what <04100> God <0410> the Lord <03068> says <01696>. For <03588> he will make <01696> peace <07965> with <0413> his people <05971>, his faithful followers <02623>. Yet they must not <0408> return <07725> to their foolish <03690> ways.
9Certainly <0389> his loyal followers <03373> will soon <07138> experience his deliverance <03468>; then his splendor <03519> will again appear <07931> in our land <0776>.
10Loyal love <02617> and faithfulness <0571> meet <06298>; deliverance <06664> and peace <07965> greet each other with a kiss <05401>.
11Faithfulness <0571> grows <06779> from the ground <0776>, and deliverance <06664> looks down <08259> from the sky <08064>.
12Yes <01571>, the Lord <03068> will bestow <05414> his good <02896> blessings, and our land <0776> will yield <05414> its crops <02981>.
13Deliverance <06664> goes <01980> before <06440> him, and prepares <07760> a pathway <06471> <01870> for him.