One of the psalms St Athanasius said to pray when a time under God’s anger has passed, in a letter from the 300s.
St Athanasius, Letter to Marcellinus
In the 300s, St Athanasius of Alexandria wrote a letter to his friend Marcellinus about praying the Psalms. In it he matched psalms to what people go through. He named this one more than once.
A time when God's anger was on you has passed, you're free again, and you want to give thanks.
When God's anger has passed at last and your captivity is over, and you want to give thanks, you have Psalms 85 and 126.
Letter to Marcellinus
For this, the quiz gives Psalm 85, and this psalm beside it.
You can feel yourself climbing: forgetting what's behind you and straining toward what's ahead.
When you sense yourself climbing higher in how you live, so that you can say with Paul, "forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead", you have the fifteen Songs of Ascents to say at every step forward.
Letter to Marcellinus
He gave all fifteen Songs of Ascents for this, Psalms 120 to 134.
6 verses, Berean Standard Bible
Its own heading A song of ascents.
Psalm 126 is 125 in the Greek numbering Athanasius used, which Orthodox Bibles and some older Catholic ones still follow.
After God has brought you through
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Bible text: Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Athanasius’s advice is paraphrased from his Greek.
