Psalms 85:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Turn us, O God of our salvation, And cause thine indignation toward us to cease.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אָסַ֥פְתָּ כָל־עֶבְרָתֶ֑ךָ הֱ֝שִׁיב֗וֹתָ מֵחֲר֥וֹן אַפֶּֽךָ׃

Transliteration

ʾāsaptā all-ʿebrātekā hĕšîbôtā from-ḥărôn ʾappekā

Grammar Details

*ʾāsaptā*: 2nd person masculine singular Qal perfect - you have gathered/withdrawn
*ʿebrātekā*: feminine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your wrath
*hĕšîbôtā*: 2nd person masculine singular Hiphil perfect - you have turned back/away
*ḥărôn*: masculine singular construct noun with preposition 'min' - from the heat of
*ʾappekā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your anger/nose

Word Meanings

*ʾāsaptā*: you have gathered/withdrawn/taken away/collected
*ʿebrātekā*: your wrath/fury/rage/outburst
*hĕšîbôtā*: you have turned back/away/caused to return
*ḥărôn*: heat/burning/fierceness
*ʾappekā*: your anger/nose/face

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 80:3 : 3 Turn us again, O God; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
Ps 80:7 : 7 Turn us again, O God of hosts; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
Dan 9:16 : 16 O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, let thine anger and thy wrath, I pray thee, be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are round about us.
Mic 7:7 : 7 But as for me, I will look unto Jehovah; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
Mic 7:18-20 : 18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in lovingkindness. 19 He will again have compassion upon us; he will tread our iniquities under foot; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. 20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, [and] the lovingkindness to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
Mal 4:6 : 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers; lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
John 4:22 : 22 Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
Ps 80:19 : 19 Turn us again, O Jehovah God of hosts; Cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
Isa 10:25 : 25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation [against thee] shall be accomplished, and mine anger [shall be directed] to his destruction.
Jer 31:18 : 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God.
Lam 5:21 : 21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.
Ps 25:2 : 2 O my God, in thee have I trusted, Let me not be put to shame; Let not mine enemies triumph over me.
Ps 27:1 : 1 [ A Psalm of David.] Jehovah is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid?
Ps 78:38 : 38 But he, being merciful, forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: Yea, many a time turned he his anger away, And did not stir up all his wrath.

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