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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Psalms 85:4

Verse Psalms 85:4. Turn us, O God of our salvation] Thou hast turned our captivity; now convert our souls. And they find a reason for their prayer in an attribute of their God; the God of their salvation. And as his work was to save, they beg that his anger towards them might cease. The Israelites were not restored from their captivity all at once. A few returned with Zerubbabel; some more with Ezra and Nehemiah; but a great number still remained in Babylonia, Media, Assyria, Egypt, and other parts. The request of the psalmist is, to have a complete restoration of all the Israelites from all places of their dispersion.

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See also Psalms 85:4 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    TURN US, O GOD OF OUR SALVATION - The God from whom salvation must come, and on whom we are dependent for it. The prayer here is, “turn us;” turn us from our sins; bring us to repentance; make us will...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 85 All Promised Blessings Realized _ 1. What grace has done (Psalms 85:1)_ 2. Prayer for the fulfilment (Psalms 85:4) 3. Righteousness and peace ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    LXXXV. PRAYER FOR THE COMPLETION OF ISRAEL'S RESTORATION. The Ps. falls clearly into two halves. Psalms 85:1 is a prayer to God. It begins (Psalms 85:1) by commemorating God's mercy. He had restored H...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    TURN US. Compare "Thou hast turned" (verses: Psalms 85:2; Psalms 85:3). GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Turn us_ I.e. Restore us. Cp. Psalms 80:3. For R.V. marg. _Turn to us_, cp. Isaiah 63:17; but the rendering of the text is preferable. _cause thine anger_&c. Lit. _break off thine indignation with us...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Yet in spite of forgiveness and restoration, much is still lacking. Oh that God would wholly withdraw His wrath, and gladden His people with a full salvation! Cp. the prayer of Psalms 126:4....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    TURN US, O GOD OF OUR SALVATION— The meaning is, "Restore us entirely to our former happy state, by completing the deliverance which thou hast begun; and by averting these new troubles which have befa...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 85 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Praise, Prayer and Prophecy lead up to the Reconciliation of Earth and Heaven. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 85:1-3, Praise to Jehovah for what he has Already Done. Stanza...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease. TURN US, O GOD OF OUR SALVATION, AND CAUSE THINE ANGER TOWARD US TO CEASE. This prayer, "Turn us ... cause thine anger ......

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This Ps. looks back upon the mercy which God has shown to His people in bringing them back from captivity (Psalms 85:1), entreats Him to remove the displeasure that has again fallen on them, and to de...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ TURN AGAIN (OR THE KISS OF *PEACE) PSALMS 85 Jesus said, "My *peace I give to you". (John 14: 2

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    TURN US. — Here equivalent to _restore us once more._ If, the poet felt, the captivity had taught its lesson, why, on the restoration, did not complete freedom from misfortune ensue? It is this which...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 85:5]_ שׁ֭וּבֵנוּ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׁעֵ֑נוּ וְ הָפֵ֖ר...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 85:1 THE outstanding peculiarity of this psalm is its sudden transitions of feeling. Beginning with exuberant thanksgiving for restoration of the nation (Psalms 85:1), it passes, without interm...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A PRAYER FOR THE NATION Psalms 85:1 This psalm is the counterpart of Psalms 80:1. There we see petitions ascending; here thanksgivings are returned. Evidently there had been granted some great nation...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This psalm would seen to have been written in a day when some Divine deliverance had been wrought for the people of God. Yet the singer is conscious that in the heart of the people there remain dispos...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Soul. I ardently desire to serve in thy temple, Jeremias xxii. 27. A holy importunity, (Luke xviii. 2.; Tertullian, Apol. 39.; Calmet) and fervour in prayer, (Haydock) with perseverance, attention, a...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    How sweet and suitable is this prayer for converting grace, after experiencing pardoning mercy! When Jesus hath purchased our pardon, his next gracious act is to renew our hearts to a proper enjoyment...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    4_Turn us, O God of our salvation! _The faithful now make a practical application to themselves, in their present circumstances, of what they had rehearsed before concerning God’s paternal tenderness...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    I have long hesitated, in reading Psalms 85, whether the first part referred to external deliverance and the grace shown in it, and the following to the causing the people to enter into the enjoyment...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    TURN US, O GOD OF OUR SALVATION,.... Who appointed it in his purposes, contrived it in council, secured it in covenant, and sent his Son to effect it; the prayer to him is for converting grace, either...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease. Ver. 4. _Turn us, O God of our salvation_] Turn us, and we shall be turned; do as thou ever hast done, for thou art Jehovah,...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Turn us, O God of our salvation_ That is, either, 1st, Convert us. As thou hast brought back our bodies to thy land, so bring back our hearts to thyself, from whom many of them are to this day aliena...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A PRAYER FOR THE WELFARE OF THE COUNTRY. To the chief musician, for use in liturgical worship, a psalm for the sons of Korah, an inspired singer of this family praying to God for renewed blessings an...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Turn us, out of the captivity of sin and misery with which Israel was surrounded, O GOD OF OUR SALVATION, who alone can give full deliverance from all bodily and spiritual tribulation, AND CAUSE THINE...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-7 The sense of present afflictions should not do away the remembrance of former mercies. The favour of God is the fountain of happiness to nations, as well as to particular persons. When God forgiv...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    TURN US; either, 1. Convert us. As thou hast brought back our bodies to thy land, so bring back our hearts to thyself, from whom many of them to this day are alienated. Or rather, 2. Restore us to ou...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 85:4 Restore H7725 (H8798) God H430 salvation H3468 anger H3708 cease H6565 (H8685) turn us -...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    In my brief comments upon this Psalm, I shall not feel bound to keep to the immediate occasion for which it was written, but shall seek to find a use for it in the present circumstances of God's saint...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 85:1. _LORD, thou host been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob. Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah._ Let...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prayer for an afflicted people. Remembrance of former mercies and faith for future good. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: The sense of present affliction should not be allowed to dro...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Psalms 85:1. _Brought back the captivity of Jacob._ Part of this psalm at least appears to have been composed after the return from captivity, or it may have been adapted to that happy occasion, when...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Lord, Thou hast been favourable unto Thy land._ A PSALM OF DELIVERANCE; SONGS AND SIGHS A part of the nation had returned, but to a ruined city, a fallen temple, and a mourning land, where they were...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 85:1. This is a community lament. It occurs at a time when God has shown his displeasure over his people’s unfaithfulness, perhaps by withholding fruitfulness from the land...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 85:4 The next section appeals to the compassion God has claimed and shown, asking him to RESTORE US AGAIN, that is, PUT AWAY YOUR INDIGNATION TOWARD US. For God to be ang

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_To the chief Musician_.” See Introduction to Psalms 57. “_A Psalm for the sons of Korah_. “See Introduction to Psalms 42. “There seems,” says Perowne, “every reason t...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THIS is a psalm written after a signal display of God's mercy towards Israel, but when there was still much wanting to make the condition of the people altogether satisfactory. It consists...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    LORD, you have been favourable unto the land: you have brought back the captivity of Jacob. You have forgiven the iniquity of your people; you have covered all of their sins (Psalms 85:1-2). So the d...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Daniel 9:16; Isaiah 10:25; Jeremiah 31:18; John 4:22; Lamentations 5

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Turn us — Restore us to our former tranquillity, and free us from the troubles which we yet groan under....

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