Psalm 85:2
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New International Version (©2011)
You forgave the iniquity of your people and covered all their sins.

New Living Translation (©2007)
You forgave the guilt of your people--yes, you covered all their sins. Interlude

English Standard Version (©2001)
You forgave the iniquity of your people; you covered all their sin. Selah

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
You forgave the iniquity of Your people; You covered all their sin. Selah.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You took away Your people's guilt; You covered all their sin. Selah

International Standard Version (©2012)
You took away the iniquity of your people, forgiving all their sins Interlude

NET Bible (©2006)
You pardoned the wrongdoing of your people; you forgave all their sin. (Selah)

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
You have forgiven the evil of your people and you have covered all their sins!

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You removed your people's guilt. You pardoned all their sins. [Selah]

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
You have forgiven the iniquity of your people, you have covered all their sin. Selah.

American King James Version
You have forgiven the iniquity of your people, you have covered all their sin. Selah.

American Standard Version
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; Thou hast covered all their sin. Selah

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people: thou hast covered all their sins.

Darby Bible Translation
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.

English Revised Version
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.

World English Bible
You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. Selah.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou hast borne away the iniquity of Thy people, Thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

85:1-7 The sense of present afflictions should not do away the remembrance of former mercies. The favour of God is the fountain of happiness to nations, as well as to particular persons. When God forgives sin, he covers it; and when he covers the sin of his people, he covers it all. See what the pardon of sin is. In compassion to us, when Christ our Intercessor has stood before thee, thou hast turned away thine anger. When we are reconciled to God, then, and not till then, we may expect the comfort of his being reconciled to us. He shows mercy to those to whom he grants salvation; for salvation is of mere mercy. The Lord's people may expect sharp and tedious afflictions when they commit sin; but when they return to him with humble prayer, he will make them again to rejoice in him.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 2. - Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; thou hast covered all their sin. God's remission of punishment, and restoration of his people to favour, was a full indication that he had "forgiven their iniquity" and "covered their sins." This was so vast a boon, that a pause for devout acknowledgment and silent adoration seemed fitting. Hence the "selah," which is at the end of the second verse, not of the first, as Hengstenberg states.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people,.... Took it from them, and laid it on Christ, who has bore it, and took it away, so as it shall never return more to their destruction; and by the application of his blood it is taken away from their own consciences; for this denotes the manifestation and discovery of forgiveness to themselves; it is a branch of redemption, and is in consequence of it; and is a fruit of the free favour and good will of God through Christ; and it only belongs to the Lord's special people, the people he has taken into covenant with him, and for whose iniquity Christ was stricken:

thou hast covered all their sin; this is but another phrase for forgiveness, see Psalm 32:1, and this is done by the blood and righteousness, and propitiatory sacrifice of Christ, the antitypical mercy seat, the covering of the law and its transgressions, and the people of God from its curse and condemnation; whose sins are so covered by Christ, as not to be seen by the eye of avenging justice, even all of them, not one remains uncovered.

Selah. See Gill on Psalm 3:2.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2, 3. (Compare Ps 32:1-5).

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You Showed Favor to Your Land
1Lord, you have been favorable to your land: you have brought back the captivity of Jacob. 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 yourself from the fierceness of your anger. …

Numbers 14:19 In accordance with your great love, forgive the sin of these people, just as you have pardoned them from the time they left Egypt until now."
1 Kings 8:30 Hear the supplication of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven, your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.
1 Kings 8:34 then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them back to the land you gave to their ancestors.
Psalm 14:7 Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the LORD restores his people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!
Psalm 32:1 Of David. A maskil. Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
Psalm 78:38 Yet he was merciful; he forgave their iniquities and did not destroy them. Time after time he restrained his anger and did not stir up his full wrath.
Psalm 103:3 who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases,
Jeremiah 31:34 No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, 'Know the LORD,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest," declares the LORD. "For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."