Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease. This prayer, "Turn us ... cause thine anger ... to cease," after the suppliants have just said, "Thou hast taken away all thy wrath; thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger," may seem strange; but faith explains it. It is just because of faith's strong anticipation of the desired issue, as if it had already come to pass (so certain is it), that it is stirred up the more intensely to pray for that which the spirit of prophecy in the Psalmist reveals as an already accomplished fact.