O Lord, You have appeased Your land, etc. If You have returned the captivity of Jacob and forgiven their iniquity, and have concealed their sin and withdrawn Your wrath from them and retreated from Your fierce anger, then You have appeased Your land, and Your world will be appeased. But as long as You do not do this, Your land and Your world will not be appeased.

Return us You return and bring us back.

Will You not ultimately return and revive us, for [so] You promised us through Your prophet.

I shall hear what God will speak I shall merit to hear what the Holy One, blessed be He, will speak when He speaks peace to His people.

to folly Heb. לכסלה, to foolishness, to sin before Him.

Kindness and truth have met That Israel will speak truth, and from heaven kindness will meet them.

righteousness and peace have kissed The righteousness [or charity] that Israel was performing and the peace from the Holy One, blessed be He, will kiss one another, i.e., the act of charity will be peace (Isa. 32:12).

Truth will sprout from the earth, etc. When Israel will speak truth, the charity that they perform on earth will look down from heaven.

God too will give good He will open His treasury, the heavens, to give rain, in order that His land yield its produce.

and He will place it on the way of his steps And the Holy One, blessed be He, will place the righteousness in the ways of his steps, with which he leads his sons.