Psalm 85:3
New International Version
You set aside all your wrath and turned from your fierce anger.

New Living Translation
You held back your fury. You kept back your blazing anger.

English Standard Version
You withdrew all your wrath; you turned from your hot anger.

Berean Standard Bible
You withheld all Your fury; You turned from Your burning anger.

King James Bible
Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.

New King James Version
You have taken away all Your wrath; You have turned from the fierceness of Your anger.

New American Standard Bible
You withdrew all Your fury; You turned away from Your burning anger.

NASB 1995
You withdrew all Your fury; You turned away from Your burning anger.

NASB 1977
Thou didst withdraw all Thy fury; Thou didst turn away from Thy burning anger.

Legacy Standard Bible
You withdrew all Your fury; You turned back from Your burning anger.

Amplified Bible
You have withdrawn all Your wrath, You have turned away from Your burning anger.

Christian Standard Bible
You withdrew all your fury; you turned from your burning anger.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You withdrew all Your fury; You turned from Your burning anger.

American Standard Version
Thou hast taken away all thy wrath; Thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And you have removed all your anger and you have turned away the heat of your wrath!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thou has caused all thy wrath to cease: thou hast turned from thy fierce anger.

Contemporary English Version
Your fierce anger is no longer aimed at us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast mitigated all thy anger: thou best turned away from the wrath of thy indignation.

English Revised Version
Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You laid aside all your fury. You turned away from your burning anger.

Good News Translation
You stopped being angry with them and held back your furious rage.

International Standard Version
You withdrew all your wrath and turned away from your burning anger.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thou hast withdrawn all Thy wrath; Thou hast turned from the fierceness of Thine anger.

Literal Standard Version
You have gathered up all Your wrath, | You have turned back from the fierceness of Your anger.

Majority Standard Bible
You withheld all Your fury; You turned from Your burning anger.

New American Bible
You withdrew all your wrath, turned back from your burning anger.

NET Bible
You withdrew all your fury; you turned back from your raging anger.

New Revised Standard Version
You withdrew all your wrath; you turned from your hot anger.

New Heart English Bible
You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou hast taken away all thy wrath; thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thy anger.

World English Bible
You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou hast gathered up all Thy wrath, Thou hast turned back from the fierceness of Thine anger.

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Context
You Showed Favor to Your Land
2You forgave the iniquity of Your people; You covered all their sin. Selah 3You withheld all Your fury; You turned from Your burning anger. 4Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put away Your displeasure toward us.…

Cross References
Exodus 32:12
Why should the Egyptians declare, 'He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth'? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people.

Deuteronomy 13:17
Nothing devoted to destruction shall cling to your hands, so that the LORD will turn from His fierce anger, grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply you as He swore to your fathers,

Psalm 78:38
And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.

Psalm 106:23
So He said He would destroy them--had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.

Jonah 3:9
Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish."


Treasury of Scripture

You have taken away all your wrath: you have turned yourself from the fierceness of your anger.

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Isaiah 6:7
And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

Isaiah 12:1
And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.

Isaiah 54:7-10
For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee…

turned, etc.

Exodus 32:11,22
And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? …

Deuteronomy 13:17
And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;

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Psalm 85
1. The Psalmist, out of the experience of former mercies, prays for continuance thereof.
8. He promises to wait thereon, out of confidence of God's goodness














Verse 3. - Thou hast taken away all thy wrath. Forgiveness of sins implies the cessation of wrath, though it does not necessarily imply the cessation of punishment. Thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger. This expresses the meaning better than the marginal rendering.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You withheld
אָסַ֥פְתָּ (’ā·sap̄·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 622: To gather for, any purpose, to receive, take away, remove

all
כָל־ (ḵāl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

Your fury;
עֶבְרָתֶ֑ךָ (‘eḇ·rā·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5678: Overflow, arrogance, fury

You turned from
הֱ֝שִׁיב֗וֹתָ (hĕ·šî·ḇō·w·ṯā)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

Your burning anger.
מֵחֲר֥וֹן (mê·ḥă·rō·wn)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2740: A burning of anger


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