“Will you be angry with us forever? or will you extend your wrath from generation to generation? Your wrath has profited unto salvation: for this reason you were angry with the former people, that you might have mercy on ours.”
Jerome, 5th c. — Homily 64, on Psalm 84 (Alternate Series)
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5Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
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3Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
4Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
— Psalms 85:5 —
6Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
7Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.