Prayer that the Lord Will Restore Favor to the Land

¹Lord , You have been favorable to Your land;

You have brought back the captivity of Jacob.

²You have forgiven the iniquity of Your people;

You have covered all their sin.

Selah

³You have taken away all Your wrath;

You have turned from the fierceness of Your anger.

⁴Restore us, O God of our salvation,[#Ps. 80:3, 7]

And cause Your anger toward us to cease.

⁵Will You be angry with us forever?[#Ps. 79:5]

Will You prolong Your anger to all generations?

⁶Will You not revive us again,[#Hab. 3:2]

That Your people may rejoice in You?

⁷Show us Your mercy, Lord ,

And grant us Your salvation.

⁸I will hear what God the Lord will speak,

For He will speak peace

To His people and to His saints;

But let them not turn back to folly.

⁹Surely His salvation is near to those who fear Him,[#Is. 46:13]

That glory may dwell in our land.

¹⁰Mercy and truth have met together;

Righteousness and peace have kissed.

¹¹Truth shall spring out of the earth,

And righteousness shall look down from heaven.

¹²Yes, the Lord will give what is good;[#(Ps. 84:11; James 1:17)]

And our land will yield its increase.

¹³Righteousness will go before Him,

And shall make His footsteps our pathway.