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Psalm 85:4

Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.

2You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. Selah.
3You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.
4Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.
5Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?
6Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?
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“God of our salvation” is the name used in a plea for anger to cease, making this a prayer of trust under the weight of judgment.

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Where else Scripture says this

12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 80:3Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.Both prayers ask God to turn his people again and look to him as the source of salvation.
Lamentations 5:21Turn us to yourself, LORD, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old.Both prayers ask God to turn his people, placing their hope for restoration in his action.
Psalm 126:4Restore our fortunes again, LORD, like the streams in the Negev.Both are communal pleas for God to restore his people, though Psalm 126 names their fortunes.
Psalm 80:7Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.Both prayers seek God’s restoring action, addressing him as the one whose favor and salvation his people need.
Micah 7:7But as for me, I will look to the LORD. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.Both address God as the God of salvation, turning toward him while help is still awaited.
Isaiah 17:10For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign …Both name God as the source of salvation; Isaiah describes forgetting him, while the psalm turns to him in prayer.
Psalm 7:12If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.Both passages concern divine judgment, though Psalm 85 asks for anger to cease and Psalm 7 warns against refusing repentance.
Malachi 4:6He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”Turning and judgment appear in both passages, though Malachi speaks of family hearts and the psalm addresses God’s indignation.
Micah 7:18–20Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he …The psalm asks God’s indignation to cease, and Micah declares that God does not retain his anger forever.
Jeremiah 31:18“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned, for you are the …Both prayers ask God to turn those addressing him, while acknowledging his anger or chastisement.
Daniel 9:13As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of the LORD our God, that we should turn from our …Both passages concern turning and seeking God’s favor amid judgment; Daniel confesses that the people have failed to seek him.
Amos 7:5Then I said, “Lord GOD, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”Both prayers address God with a plea for him to stop, seeking relief for his people.
Where this verse fits

Guilt and confession. feeling distant from God. waiting.

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Encouragement

The people ask the God who saves them to turn them again. Their plea faces his indignation and depends on his power to restore.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).