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You have withdrawn all Your wrath, You have turned away from Your burning anger.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

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

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.

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

NET Bible
You withdrew all your fury; you turned back from your raging 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.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
You have gathered up all Your wrath, "" You have turned back 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.

Smith's Literal Translation
Thou didst take away all thy wrath: thou didst turn back the burning of thine anger.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast mitigated all thy anger: thou best turned away from the wrath of thy indignation.

Catholic Public Domain Version
You have mitigated all your wrath. You have turned aside from the wrath of your indignation.

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

New Revised Standard Version
You withdrew all your wrath; you turned from your hot anger.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
Thou hast taken away all thy wrath; thou hast withdrawn the fierceness of thine anger.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And you have removed all your anger and you have turned away the heat of your wrath!
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Thou hast withdrawn all Thy wrath; Thou hast turned from the fierceness of Thine anger.

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

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



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
Isaiah 12:1
In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.

Micah 7:18
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

Jeremiah 31:34
No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”

Isaiah 54:7-8
“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back. / In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.

Lamentations 3:31-32
For the Lord will not cast us off forever. / Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.

Exodus 32:14
So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.

Numbers 14:19-20
Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your loving devotion, just as You have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.” / “I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied.

Nehemiah 9:17
They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake them.

Daniel 9:9
To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, even though we have rebelled against Him

Joel 2:13
So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.

Jonah 3:10
When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.

Romans 5:9-10
Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him! / For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!

Ephesians 2:3-5
All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath. / But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, / made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!

Colossians 1:21-22
Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds. / But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—

2 Corinthians 5:18-19
All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: / that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.


Treasury of Scripture

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

taken

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














You withheld all Your fury
This phrase reflects a profound moment of divine restraint and mercy. The Hebrew word for "fury" here is "chemah," which denotes a burning anger or wrath. In the context of the Old Testament, God's fury is often associated with His righteous judgment against sin. However, the withholding of this fury signifies a moment of grace and forgiveness. Historically, Israel experienced periods of divine wrath due to their disobedience, yet God’s covenantal love often led Him to withhold His full judgment, offering His people a chance for repentance and restoration.

You turned from Your burning anger
The phrase "turned from" is derived from the Hebrew word "shuv," which means to return or turn back. This indicates a change in direction, emphasizing God's willingness to relent from His anger. The "burning anger" is a translation of "charon aph," literally meaning "the burning of the nose," a vivid metaphor for intense anger. In the scriptural context, this turning away from anger is a testament to God's patience and long-suffering nature. It highlights the transformative power of repentance and intercession, as seen in the history of Israel, where leaders like Moses and prophets like Jeremiah interceded for the people, prompting God to turn from His anger and extend mercy.

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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