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You Showed Favor to Your Land

Psalms 85:2

In 11 translations

BSB
You forgave the iniquity of Your people; You covered all their sin. Selah
KJV
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
WEB
You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. Selah.
ASV
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; Thou hast covered all their sin. [Selah
LSV
You have carried away the iniquity of Your people, || You have covered all their sin. Selah.
YLT
Thou hast borne away the iniquity of Thy people, Thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
DBY
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
DRC84:3
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people: thou hast covered all their sins.
GNV
Thou hast forgiuen the iniquitie of thy people, and couered all their sinnes. Selah.
JPS85:3
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of Thy people, Thou hast pardoned all their sin. Selah
LXXE84:3
Thou hast forgiven thy people their transgressions; thou hast covered all their sins. Pause.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC85:3
נָ֭שָׂאתָ עֲוֺ֣ן עַמֶּ֑ךָ כִּסִּ֖יתָ כָל־חַטָּאתָ֣ם סֶֽלָה׃KJV:Ps.85.2
LXX-Br84:3
Ἀφῆκας τὰς ἀνομίας τῷ λαῷ σου, ἐκάλυψας πάσας τὰς ἁμαρτίας αὐτῶν· διάψαλμα.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Micah 7:18Who 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?
  • Psalms 32:1Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
  • Colossians 2:13When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,
  • Numbers 14:19Pardon, 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.”
  • Acts 13:39Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.
  • Jeremiah 50:20In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, a search will be made for Israel’s guilt, but there will be none, and for Judah’s sins, but they will not be found; for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.
  • Psalms 79:8–9Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us and atone for our sins, for the sake of Your name.
  • Psalms 78:38And 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.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 85:3 in some Bibles
  • 85:2 in most Bibles

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