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Psalm 85:7

Show us your loving kindness, LORD. Grant us your salvation.

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.
9Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.
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“Show us” expresses the longing to see God's loving kindness at work when his people are still asking whether his anger will end.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Psalm 91:16I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.”Psalm 85 asks God to grant salvation; Psalm 91 records God's promise to show his salvation.
Psalm 50:23Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”Both passages speak of God's salvation: Psalm 85 asks for it, while Psalm 50 links seeing it with thanksgiving.
Jeremiah 42:12I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land.Both passages look to God for mercy: the psalm asks for loving kindness, and Jeremiah records God's promise to grant mercy.
Genesis 49:18I have waited for your salvation, LORD.Both address the LORD as the source of salvation, with the psalm asking and Jacob speaking of waiting.
Genesis 43:14May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”Psalm 85 asks the LORD for loving kindness and salvation; Jacob asks God Almighty for mercy and his sons' release.
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Encouragement

Unanswered questions about God's anger remain in the surrounding prayer. Even there, the people appeal to his loving kindness and seek salvation from his hand.

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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).