Restoration remembered and peace envisioned

Favor already shown to the land still has to be asked for again

LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob. Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.

Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease. Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations? Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee? Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation. Restored captivity and covered sin are remembered without pretending the present is already whole. Revival is requested so that joy in God can return.

Peace is spoken as the meeting of mercy, truth, righteousness, and a yielding land

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. Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land. Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase. Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps. Peace here is not a private calm trick. It is moral meeting: mercy with truth, righteousness with peace, earth answering heaven, land yielding increase. Folly remains a real relapse. The vision is not a technique for getting rich, and it is not a nationalist land claim. Jacob's restoration stays Jacob's.