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Psalm 85:6
Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?
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?
7Show us your loving kindness, LORD. Grant us your salvation.
8I will hear what God, the LORD, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.
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“Again” carries the memory of life renewed before, while the plea reveals a people still waiting to find their joy in God.
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Habakkuk 3:2LORD, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In …Both prayers ask God to renew what has been known before: his work in Habakkuk and his people’s life in the psalm.
Psalm 138:7Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.Both look to God for revival; Psalm 138 expresses confidence amid trouble, while Psalm 85 voices a plea for the people.
Psalm 80:18So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.Both ask God to revive his people, linking renewed life with a response directed toward him: calling on his name or rejoicing.
Isaiah 57:15For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble …Both identify God as the source of revival; Isaiah names the humble and contrite as those whose spirits and hearts he revives.
Psalm 90:14Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.Both prayers seek God’s help so that his people may rejoice, connecting their joy to what he gives.
Hosea 6:2After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up, and we will live before him.Both speak of God reviving his people, with renewed life directed toward him through rejoicing or living before him.
Psalm 71:20You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.Both look to God for life restored again, though Psalm 71 names bitter troubles and Psalm 85 emphasizes renewed joy.
Habakkuk 3:18yet I will rejoice in the LORD. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!Rejoicing in God is the shared thread: Psalm 85 asks for revival toward that end, while Habakkuk declares that joy.
Ezra 9:8–9Now for a little moment grace has been shown from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a stake in his holy place, that our God may …Both speak of God reviving his people; Ezra describes a measure of revival in bondage, while the psalm asks for revival again.
Ezra 3:11–13They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to the LORD, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel.” All the people …Both concern God’s people rejoicing in him, though Ezra describes praise at the temple foundation rather than a plea for revival.
Genesis 45:27They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, …Both describe revival, though Genesis concerns Jacob’s spirit reviving at news and wagons from Joseph, while the psalm seeks revival from God.
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The plea does not pretend joy has returned. It asks God for renewed life, with hope fixed on the One in whom his people long to rejoice.
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