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Psalms 85:13

Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.

Righteousness shall go before him and shall set (us) in the way of his steps - rather, 'and shall set in the (righteous) way His step' (Isaiah 11:3) etc.; or else, 'Righteousness shall go before Him, and set its steps in the way' (so the Chaldaic, Vulgate, Septuagint, and Arabic) - i:e., shall freely pursue its way. Contrast the opposite state ().

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See also Psalms 85:13 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 85:13. _RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL GO BEFORE HIM_] Perhaps this verse may receive its best solution from Romans 3:25: "Whom God hath set for a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declar...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL GO BEFORE HIM - Shall anticipate his coming, and prepare his way. The idea seems to be, that in order to his appearing, there would be a proclamation of righteousness, and a prepar...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 85 All Promised Blessings Realized _ 1. What grace has done (Psalms 85:1)_ 2. Prayer for the fulfilment (Psalms 85:4) 3. Righteousness and peace ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    LXXXV. PRAYER FOR THE COMPLETION OF ISRAEL'S RESTORATION. The Ps. falls clearly into two halves. Psalms 85:1 is a prayer to God. It begins (Psalms 85:1) by commemorating God's mercy. He had restored H...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jehovah Himself appears to lead His people forward. Before Him as a herald goes the righteousness which moves Him to the salvation of His people; and (it) shall make his footsteps a way (to walk in);...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Psalmist listens for Jehovah's answer to His people's prayer; and conveys to them the assurance that rich abundance of blessing is in store for those who fear Him....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL GO BEFORE HIM, &C.— _Before him righteousness shall walk; and that's the path his feet shall tread:_ Hebrew: _he shall set his feet in the way;_ that _way of righteousness,_ says F...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 85 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Praise, Prayer and Prophecy lead up to the Reconciliation of Earth and Heaven. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 85:1-3, Praise to Jehovah for what he has Already Done. Stanza...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    85:13 way. (b-13) Or 'shall set [itself] in the way of his steps.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This Ps. looks back upon the mercy which God has shown to His people in bringing them back from captivity (Psalms 85:1), entreats Him to remove the displeasure that has again fallen on them, and to de...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SET US.. STEPS] RV 'make his footsteps a way to walk in.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ TURN AGAIN (OR THE KISS OF *PEACE) PSALMS 85 Jesus said, "My *peace I give to you". (John 14: 2

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL... — Better, _Righteousness shall walk in front of Him, and follow in His steps._ Nothing is more instructive than the blending in Psalms 85:12 of material and moral blessings. Th...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 85:14]_ צֶ֭דֶק לְ פָנָ֣יו יְהַלֵּ֑ךְ וְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 85:1 THE outstanding peculiarity of this psalm is its sudden transitions of feeling. Beginning with exuberant thanksgiving for restoration of the nation (Psalms 85:1), it passes, without interm...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A PRAYER FOR THE NATION Psalms 85:1 This psalm is the counterpart of Psalms 80:1. There we see petitions ascending; here thanksgivings are returned. Evidently there had been granted some great nation...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This psalm would seen to have been written in a day when some Divine deliverance had been wrought for the people of God. Yet the singer is conscious that in the heart of the people there remain dispos...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (h) Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set [us] in the way of his steps. (h) Justice will then flourish and have free course and passage in every place....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Hell of the damned, (Worthington) according to the Fathers: or out of captivity and dangers. (Berthier) --- If it be understood of Christ, it must refer to limbo. (Bellarmine) (Menochius) --- It seems...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    All increase, all blessings, must now continue to flow in our Emmanuel's land, his church; and that church cannot cease from following her glorious Head, when He, now lifted up; hath undertaken and pr...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS MY soul, read again and again this blessed Psalm; and so read and meditate concerning the most glorious things spoken of in it, until thy whole affections are led out in holy rapture, prai...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    13._Righteousness shall go before him. _The word _righteousness _is taken by some for _a righteous person; _but this is unnatural. Viewed in this light, the passage, indeed, contains the useful and im...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    I have long hesitated, in reading Psalms 85, whether the first part referred to external deliverance and the grace shown in it, and the following to the causing the people to enter into the enjoyment...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL GO BEFORE HIM,.... The incarnate Saviour, the increase of our land, and fruit of the virgin's womb; and righteousness may be put for a righteous person, as Aben Ezra interprets it;...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set [us] in the way of his steps. Ver. 13. _Righteousness shall go before him_] Men shall walk before God in holiness and righteousness all the days of th...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The Lord shall give us that which is good_ That is, all that is good in itself, and good for us; all spiritual and temporal blessings. _And our land shall yield her increase_ The effects of the incar...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Righteousness shall go before Him, as the herald proclaiming His coming; AND SHALL SET US IN THE WAY OF HIS STEPS, following Him closely and carefully, so that it is once more generally known and obse...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A PRAYER FOR THE WELFARE OF THE COUNTRY. To the chief musician, for use in liturgical worship, a psalm for the sons of Korah, an inspired singer of this family praying to God for renewed blessings an...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    8-13 Sooner or later, God will speak peace to his people. If he do not command outward peace, yet he will suggest inward peace; speaking to their hearts by his Spirit. Peace is spoken only to those w...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    GO BEFORE HIM, as his harbinger or attendant. He shall work and fulfil all righteousness, he shall glorify and satisfy the righteousness of God, and shall advance the practice of righteousness and hol...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 85:13 Righteousness H6664 go H1980 (H8762) before H6440 make H7760 (H8799) footsteps H6471 pathway H1870...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 85:10 These four verses are a fourfold picture of how heaven and earth ought to blend and harmonise. I. Take the first verse: "Mercy and truth are met together," etc. We have here the heavenly...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    In my brief comments upon this Psalm, I shall not feel bound to keep to the immediate occasion for which it was written, but shall seek to find a use for it in the present circumstances of God's saint...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prayer for an afflicted people. Remembrance of former mercies and faith for future good. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: The sense of present affliction should not be allowed to dro...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Psalms 85:1. _Brought back the captivity of Jacob._ Part of this psalm at least appears to have been composed after the return from captivity, or it may have been adapted to that happy occasion, when...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Righteousness shall go before Him; and shall set us in the way of His steps._ RIGHT STEPS I. The essential steps of the Lord’s dealings with us. The first thing in God’s dealing towards us is that H...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other._ THE BRIDAL OF THE EARTH AND SKY This is a lovely and highly imaginative picture of the reconciliation and reunion o...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Lord, Thou hast been favourable unto Thy land._ A PSALM OF DELIVERANCE; SONGS AND SIGHS A part of the nation had returned, but to a ruined city, a fallen temple, and a mourning land, where they were...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 85:1. This is a community lament. It occurs at a time when God has shown his displeasure over his people’s unfaithfulness, perhaps by withholding fruitfulness from the land...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 85:10 The psalm closes with confidence that God will hear their prayer and give them what they ask. STEADFAST LOVE AND FAITHFULNESS MEET, that is, in God they are in harmony. God’...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_To the chief Musician_.” See Introduction to Psalms 57. “_A Psalm for the sons of Korah_. “See Introduction to Psalms 42. “There seems,” says Perowne, “every reason t...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THIS is a psalm written after a signal display of God's mercy towards Israel, but when there was still much wanting to make the condition of the people altogether satisfactory. It consists...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    LORD, you have been favourable unto the land: you have brought back the captivity of Jacob. You have forgiven the iniquity of your people; you have covered all of their sins (Psalms 85:1-2). So the d...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 John 2:6; 1 Peter 2:18; 1 Peter 4:1; 2 Corinthians 3:18; Ephesians

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Before him — As his harbinger. He shall fulfil all righteousness, he shall satisfy the righteousness of God, and shall advance righteousness and holiness among men. Set us — Shall cause us to walk in...

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