Psalm 85:2 You forgave the iniquity of your people and covered all their sins.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
You forgave the iniquity of your people and covered all their sins.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Cross References

Numbers 14:19
Pardon, I beseech you, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your mercy, and as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.

1 Kings 8:30
And listen you to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear you in heaven your dwelling place: and when you hear, forgive.

1 Kings 8:34
Then hear you in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.

Psalm 14:7
Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

Psalm 32:1
Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

Psalm 78:38
But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yes, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

Psalm 103:3
Who forgives all your iniquities; who heals all your diseases;

Jeremiah 31:34
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, said the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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