“Unto the end, a psalm of the sons of Korah. The eighty-fourth psalm is headed with this title. I have often said: wherever there is the title "Of the sons of Korah," nothing is sorrowful, but always joyful. For the sorrow of the father is consoled by the joy of the sons. Read the psalms through carefully, then, and wh…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Homily 17, on Psalm 84
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1Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
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— Psalms 85:1 —
2Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
3Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.