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 welfare of the land.
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,--...
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...
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 ...
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...
MET. KISSED. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia._ App-6....
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...
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....
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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
(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...
MET TOGETHER. — The word is used of those who should be friends, but whom circumstances have sundered (Proverbs 22:2)....
_[Psalms 85:11]_ חֶֽסֶד ־וֶ אֱמֶ֥ת נִפְגָּ֑שׁוּ צֶ֖דֶק...
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...
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...
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...
_Alone. Vatican Septuagint, Arabic, &c., add, "the great." (Calmet) (Acts xvii. 24._...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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,...
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...
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...
Psalms 85:10 Mercy H2617 truth H571 together H6298 (H8738) Righteousness H6664 peace H7965 kissed H5401 (H8804)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
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...
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’...
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...
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...
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...
Exodus 34:6; Exodus 34:7; Hebrews 7:2; Isaiah 32:16; Isaiah 45:24;...
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...