Psalm 85:3 {84:4}
Good News Translation
You stopped being angry with them and held back your furious rage.

New Revised Standard Version
You withdrew all your wrath; you turned from your hot anger.

Contemporary English Version
Your fierce anger is no longer aimed at us.

New American Bible
You withdrew all your wrath, turned back from your burning anger.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast mitigated all thy anger: thou hast turned away from the wrath of thy indignation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou hast mitigated all thy anger: thou hast turned away from the wrath of thy indignation.

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Isaiah 6:7 And he touched my mouth, and said: Behold this hath touched thy lips, and thy iniquities shall be taken away, and thy sin shall be cleansed.

Isaiah 12:1 And thou shalt say in that day: I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, for thou wast angry with me: thy wrath is turned away, and thou hast comforted me.

Isaiah 54:7-10 For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee. . . .

John 1:29 The next day, John saw Jesus coming to him; and he saith: Behold the Lamb of God. Behold him who taketh away the sin of the world.

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Exodus 32:11,22 But Moses besought the Lord his God, saying: Why, O Lord, is thy indignation enkindled against thy people, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, with great power, and with a mighty hand? . . .

Deuteronomy 13:17 And there shall nothing of that anathema stick to thy hand: that the Lord may turn from the wrath of his fury, and may have mercy on thee, and multiply thee as he swore to thy fathers,

Context
You Showed Favor to Your Land
2Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people: thou hast covered all their sins. 3Thou hast mitigated all thy anger: thou hast turned away from the wrath of thy indignation.4Convert us, O God our saviour: and turn off thy anger from us.…
Cross References
Exodus 32:12
Let not the Egyptians say, I beseech thee: He craftily brought them out, that he might kill them in the mountains, and destroy them from the earth: let thy anger cease, and be appeased upon the wickedness of thy people.

Deuteronomy 13:17
And there shall nothing of that anathema stick to thy hand: that the Lord may turn from the wrath of his fury, and may have mercy on thee, and multiply thee as he swore to thy fathers,

Psalm 78:38
But he is merciful, and will forgive their sins: and will not destroy them. And many a time did he turn away his anger: and did not kindle all his wrath.

Psalm 106:23
And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

Jonah 3:9
And let men and beasts be covered with sackcloth, and cry to the Lord with all their strength, and let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the iniquity that is in their hands.

Psalm 85:2
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