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Psalms 85:10-13

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’s righteousness here is his reliability in keeping his promises (especially to his people), and therefore it guarantees the peace (see v. Psalms 85:8). They kiss each other like the affectionate greeting of relatives (e.g., Genesis 29:13; Genesis 45:15).

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See also Psalms 85:10-13 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 85:10. _MERCY AND TRUTH ARE MET TOGETHER_] It would be more simple to translate the original,- חסד ואמת נפגשו צדק ושלום נשקו Chesed veemeth niphgashu; Tsedek veshalom nashaku,--...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    MERCY AND TRUTH ARE MET TOGETHER - That is, in the divine dealings referred to in the psalm. There has been a blending of mercy and truth in those dealings; or, both have been manifested; truth, in th...

  • 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

    MET. KISSED. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia._ App-6....

  • 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

    Does this verse speak of the _divine attributes_which conspire together in the work of salvation, or of the _human virtues_which will characterise the new community? Primarily of the former. God's lov...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 643 THE PERFECTIONS OF GOD RECONCILED IN CHRIST JESUS Psalms 85:9. _Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him, that glory may dwell in our land. Mercy and truth are met together; rig...

  • 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

    Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. MERCY AND TRUTH ARE MET TOGETHER. "Mercy" from God for the pardon of our sin is shown, in the redemption performed...

  • 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...

  • 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

    MET TOGETHER. — The word is used of those who should be friends, but whom circumstances have sundered (Proverbs 22:2)....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 85:11]_ חֶֽסֶד ־וֶ אֱמֶ֥ת נִפְגָּ֑שׁוּ צֶ֖דֶק...

  • 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

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  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Alone. Vatican Septuagint, Arabic, &c., add, "the great." (Calmet) (Acts xvii. 24._...

  • 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 Calvin's Bible Commentary

    10._Mercy and truth shall meet together. _Here the verbs are in the past tense; but it is evident from the scope of the passage, that they should be translated into the future. I cordially embrace the...

  • 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

    MERCY AND TRUTH ARE MET TOGETHER,.... Or "grace and truth" p, which are in Christ, and come by him; and so may be said to meet in him, the glorious Person, the Author of salvation, before mentioned, J...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed [each other]. Ver. 10. _Mercy and truth are met together_] As in God (his mercy is ever bounded by his truth), so in all his peop...

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

    _Mercy and truth are met together_, &c. When that blessed time shall come, those virtues which now seem to be banished from human society shall be restored, and there shall be a happy union of mercy,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Mercy and truth are met together, grace and faithfulness meeting as friends and operating in harmony; righteousness AND PEACE HAVE KISSED EACH OTHER, the cooperation of these virtues making for the we...

  • 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

    This is to be understood, either, 1. Of these graces or virtues in men. So the sense is, When that _blessed_ time shall come, those virtues which now seem to be banished from human societies shall be...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 85:10 Mercy H2617 truth H571 together H6298 (H8738) Righteousness H6664 peace H7965 kissed H5401 (H8804)...

  • 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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 85:10 Strict regard for rule is of the essence of righteousness. It is by the revelation of law that God awakens in us the sentiment of righteousness; by His undeviating adherence to law that s...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • 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

    Exodus 34:6; Exodus 34:7; Hebrews 7:2; Isaiah 32:16; Isaiah 45:24;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Kissed — That great work of redemption by Christ, shall clearly manifest God's mercy in redeeming his people Israel, and in the conversion of the Gentiles; his truth in fulfilling that great promise o...

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