Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
The psalm is a psalm of deliverance remembering when God was favorable to His land and brought back the captivity of Jacob. It is associated with the Jews' return from Babylonian captivity to the Holy Land during the reign of Cyrus, amid mixed emotions of joy, sorrow, and anxiety. To take away all wrath and turn from the fierceness of anger is to set aside the deserved anger of God, standing together with forgiving the iniquity of His people and covering all their sin.
It was the Lord Himself, not Cyrus nor Zerubbabel nor Ezra, who did everything good in the return, the forgiveness, the covering of sin, and the removal of wrath. This past turning from anger grounds the plea for God to turn His people, cause indignation to cease, quicken them again, show mercy and grant salvation, so that His people may rejoice in Him. The Lord is ready to speak peace to His children when they turn from sin and rebellion.
The deliverance records both the experience of return after the Babylonian captivity and, even if written before it, prophecy. In either case it is prophecy of a glorious deliverance from all sin. It was given to cheer God's people then and as lessons for all time, for now.
The psalm is a psalm of deliverance remembering when God was favorable to His land and brought back the captivity of Jacob. It is associated with the Jews' return from Babylonian captivity to the Holy Land during the reign of Cyrus, amid mixed emotions of joy, sorrow, and anxiety. To take away all wrath and turn from the fierceness of anger is to set aside the deserved anger of God, standing together with forgiving the iniquity of His people and covering all their sin.
It was the Lord Himself, not Cyrus nor Zerubbabel nor Ezra, who did everything good in the return, the forgiveness, the covering of sin, and the removal of wrath. This past turning from anger grounds the plea for God to turn His people, cause indignation to cease, quicken them again, show mercy and grant salvation, so that His people may rejoice in Him. The Lord is ready to speak peace to His children when they turn from sin and rebellion.
The deliverance records both the experience of return after the Babylonian captivity and, even if written before it, prophecy. In either case it is prophecy of a glorious deliverance from all sin. It was given to cheer God's people then and as lessons for all time, for now.