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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...
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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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EARTH. land. Same word as verses: Psalms 85:1; Psalms 85:9; Psalms
85:12....
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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....
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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...
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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....
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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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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...
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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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12. Material prosperity will accompany spiritual blessings....
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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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(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...
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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...
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_[Psalms 85:12]_ אֱ֭מֶת מֵ אֶ֣רֶץ תִּצְמָ֑ח
וְ֝...
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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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(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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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 righteousne...
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_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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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Psalms 85:11 Truth H571 out H6779 (H8799) earth H776 righteousness
H6664 down H8259 (H8738) heaven H8064...
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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...
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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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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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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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_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...
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_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...
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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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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 85:10 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’...
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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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1 John 5:20; 1 John 5:21; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Ephesians 1:6; Isaiah
4:2
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Truth — Truth among men. Righteousness — And God's justice shall
be satisfied: he shall look down upon sinful men with a smiling
countenance....