A Psalm for the sons of Korah.

LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land:
thou hast bought back the captiviy of Jacob.
² Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people,
thou hast covered all their sin.
Selah.

³ Thou hast taken away all thy wrath:
thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
⁴ Turn us, O God of our salvation,
and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
⁵ Wilt thou be angry with us for ever?
wilt thou draw out thine anger
to all generations [to generation and generation]?
⁶ Wilt thou not revive us again:
that thy people may rejoice in thee?
⁷ Shew us thy mercy, O LORD,
and grant us thy salvation.

⁸ I will hear what God the LORD will speak:
for he will speak peace unto his people,
and to his saints:
but let them not turn again to folly.
⁹ Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him;
that glory may dwell in our land.
¹⁰ Mercy and truth are met together;
righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
¹¹ Truth shall spring out of the earth;
and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
¹² Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good;
and our land shall yield her increase.
¹³ Righteousness shall go before him;
and shall set us in the way of his steps.

* NOTE: On Opening and Closing Comments in the Psalms.
[Some commentators take the Psalm in Habakkuk 3 to be a standard model for the Psalms.
Habakkuk's Psalm begins with the name of the composer (Habakkuk) and a musical notation ("upon Shigionoth").
It closes with a dedication or a "send to" notice ("To the chief singer on my stringed instruments").
I have arranged similar material, where it is found in the Psalter, in accord with the model in Habakkuk.]