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John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 85:11

Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

Ver. 11. Truth shall spring out of the earth] i.e. Heaven and earth shall be full both of truth and righteousness. Many understand all concerning Christ. See John 3:13. Others, concerning extraordinary plenty of all good things.

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See also Psalms 85:11 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 85:11. _TRUTH SHALL SPRING OUT OF THE EARTH_] In consequence of this wonderful _reconciliation_, the truth of God shall prevail among men. The _seeds_ of it shall be so plentifully sown b...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    TRUTH SHALL SPRING OUT OF THE EARTH - As plants do - for this is the meaning of the word. The blessings of truth and righteousness would be like the grass, the shrubs, the flowers, which spring up fro...

  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    EARTH. land. Same word as verses: Psalms 85:1; Psalms 85:9; Psalms 85:12....

  • 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....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Truth springeth out of the earth; And righteousness hath looked down from heaven. (R.V.) Truth springs up as a natural growth in response to God's manifestation of His saving righteousness. Harmony...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    MERCY AND TRUTH, &C.— _The favour and justice_ which God shewed his people, are considered as coming down from heaven, and meeting and embracing truth and prosperity, springing up from the earth: i.e....

  • 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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. TRUTH SHALL SPRING OUT OF THE EARTH; AND RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL LOOK DOWN FROM HEAVEN. Truth shall then spring spont...

  • 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

    12. Material prosperity will accompany spiritual blessings....

  • 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

    (9-11) The exquisite personification of these verses is, it has been truly remarked, exactly in Isaiah’s manner. (See Isaiah 32:16 _seq.,_ Isaiah 45:8; Isaiah 59:14.) It is an allegory of completed na...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    TRUTH, or “faithfulness,” is here depicted as springing out of the earth, because the renewal of fertility has re-established the conviction of the faithfulness of Jehovah towards His people, which ha...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 85:12]_ אֱ֭מֶת מֵ אֶ֣רֶץ תִּצְמָ֑ח וְ֝...

  • 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

    (g) Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. (g) Though for a time God thus exercises them with his rods, yet under the kingdom of Christ they should have p...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Truth. Let me see the justice of thy conduct in suffering the wicked to prosper, (Psalm lxxii. 17.) or let me invariably observe thy holy law, which alone can give me true content. --- Rejoice. Hebrew...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader, behold what a meeting is here! All the divine attributes, indeed, all the Persons of the Godhead, for man's salvation. All center in the person of Christ. Is not Jesus himself emphatically cal...

  • 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

    TRUTH SHALL SPRING OUT OF THE EARTH,.... Either the Gospel, the word of truth, which sprung up at once in the land of Judea, as if it came out of the earth; and from Zion and Jerusalem it came forth i...

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

    _Truth shall spring out of the earth_ Either, 1st, Truth among men, which shall be as common among all men as if it sprung out of the earth. Or rather, 2d, The truth or faithfulness of God, which may...

  • 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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Truth, the covenant faithfulness following the return of God's merciful kindness upon the land of Israel, SHALL SPRING OUT OF THE EARTH, as a fruit of God's love; AND RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL LOOK DOWN FRO...

  • 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

    TRUTH SHALL SPRING OUT OF THE EARTH; either, 1. Truth among men, which shall be so common amongst all men, as if it grew out of the earth. Or rather, 2. The truth or faithfulness of God; which is mos...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 85:11 Truth H571 out H6779 (H8799) earth H776 righteousness H6664 down H8259 (H8738) heaven H8064...

  • 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

    Psalms 85:1. _LORD, thou host 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. Selah._ Let...

  • 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

    _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 Biblical Illustrator

    _Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven._ THE MORAL PROSPERITY OF EARTH THE JOY OF HEAVEN I. The history of earth will one day be characterized by moral p...

  • 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 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 5:20; 1 John 5:21; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Ephesians 1:6; Isaiah 4:2

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Truth — Truth among men. Righteousness — And God's justice shall be satisfied: he shall look down upon sinful men with a smiling countenance....

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