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Verse Psalms 85:6. _WILT THOU NOT REVIVE US_] We have long had the
sentence of death in ourselves; and have feared an utter extinction.
Shall not our nation yet live before thee? Shall we not become o...
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WILT THOU NOT REVIVE US AGAIN - literally, “Wilt thou not turn, or
return, cause us to live;” that is, and cause us to live. The
expression is equivalent to “again” as in our translation. The
Septuagi...
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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 ...
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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...
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Yet in spite of forgiveness and restoration, much is still lacking. Oh
that God would wholly withdraw His wrath, and gladden His people with
a full salvation! Cp. the prayer of Psalms 126:4....
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_Wilt thou not revive us again_ Wilt not thou turn and quicken us?
restoring our national life according to the promises of the prophets.
See Hosea 6:2; Habakkuk 2:4; Ezekiel 37:3 ff. Cp....
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WILT THOU NOT REVIVE US AGAIN— To send a people into captivity, is
to inflict civil death upon them. To restore them to their own land,
is to _revive,_ or give them a new life: thus the final restorat...
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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...
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Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
WILT THOU NOT REVIVE US AGAIN? - Hebrew (the same verb as in . "turn
us"), 'Wilt thou not turn (and) revive us?' (; ;...
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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...
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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
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_[Psalms 85:7]_ הֲֽ לֹא ־אַ֭תָּה תָּשׁ֣וּב
תְּחַיֵּ֑נוּ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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These are divine breathings, and they speak the language of a truly
awakened, regenerated, pardoned sinner. These cries suit the church,
and every member of the church. They comprise in three leading...
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The godly, still dwelling on the same theme, ask, in the 6th verse,
whether _God will not turn again and quicken them _Being fully
convinced of the truth of this principle, That the punishments with
w...
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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...
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WILT THOU NOT REVIVE US AGAIN,.... Their return from the Babylonish
captivity was a reviving of them in their bondage, Ezra 9:8 and the
conversion of them in the latter day will be a reviving them aga...
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Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
Ver. 6. _Wilt thou not revive us again?_] Who for present are all
amort, as it were, free among the dead? free of that company?
_...
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_Wilt thou not revive us again?_ Thou hast once revived us in bringing
us out of captivity; give us a second reviving, in bringing home the
rest of our brethren, and in rebuking and restraining the re...
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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...
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Wilt Thou not revive us again, giving them back the true enjoyment of
life, in the assurance of His grace and in the power for
sanctification flowing from His strength, THAT THY PEOPLE MAY REJOICE
IN...
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1-7 The sense of present afflictions should not do away the
remembrance of former mercies. The favour of God is the fountain of
happiness to nations, as well as to particular persons. When God
forgiv...
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Thou hast once revived us in bringing us out of captivity, give us a
second reviving in bringing home the rest of our brethren, and in
rebuking and restraining the remainder of our enemies wrath....
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Psalms 85:6
I. As individual Christians and as Churches of Jesus Christ, we need
to be very clear in our doctrinal foundations. Beginning with the
doctrine of sin, let us strive after God's view of it...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_Wilt Thou not revive us again: that Thy people may rejoice in Thee?_
A PRAYER FOR REVIVAL
I. What is the time for such a prayer as this?
1. When we can remember some gracious acts of God in the pa...
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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...
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 85:4 The next section appeals to the compassion
God has claimed and shown, asking him to RESTORE US AGAIN, that is,
PUT AWAY YOUR INDIGNATION TOWARD US. For God to be ang
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ezra 3:11; Ezra 9:8; Ezra 9:9; Habakkuk 3:2; Hosea 6:2;...
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Revive us — Give us a second reviving in bringing home the rest of
our brethren, and in restraining our enemies....