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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Psalms 85:12

Verse Psalms 85:12. The Lord shall give - good] הטוב hattob, THE GOOD thing-what is the supreme good, the summum bonum, for which man has searched in vain through all his generations. Those who are reconciled to him through the Son of his love shall enjoy the favour of their God; to have which is the supreme happiness of man.

Our land shall yield her increase.] There shall be neither dearth nor barrenness; for truth, that springs out of the earth, shall yield an abundant harvest, in the conversion of all nations to the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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See also Psalms 85:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    YEA, THE LORD SHALL GIVE THAT WHICH IS GOOD - All that is truly good: all needful temporal blessings; all blessings connected with salvation. AND OUR LAND SHALL YIELD HER INCREASE - There shall be fr...

  • 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

    OUR LAND, &C. Note "Thy land" in Psalms 85:1. Compare Psalms 67:6....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Material prosperity will go hand in hand with moral progress. Earth responds to the divine blessing. Cp. Leviticus 26:4; Deuteronomy 28:12; Psalms 67:6. The fruitfulness of the land is a constant feat...

  • 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....

  • 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

    Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase. YEA, THE LORD SHALL GIVE THAT WHICH IS GOOD, AND OUR LAND SHALL YIELD HER INCREASE. It is by the gift of the Lord...

  • 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

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 85:13]_ גַּם ־יְ֭הוָה יִתֵּ֣ן הַ טֹּ֑וב...

  • 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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    All increase, all blessings, must now continue to flow in our Emmanuel's land, his church; and that church cannot cease from following her glorious Head, when He, now lifted up; hath undertaken and pr...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    12._Likewise, Jehovah will grant prosperity. _Some take this verse allegorically, and interpret it of the increase of spiritual blessings; but this does not agree with the particle גם _, gam, _rendere...

  • 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

    YEA, THE LORD SHALL GIVE THAT WHICH IS GOOD,.... Meaning not merely temporal good, as rain in particular, as some think, because of the following clause; but that which is spiritually good, his good S...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Yea, the LORD shall give [that which is] good; and our land shall yield her increase. Ver. 12. _Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good_] Yea, best of all, viz. his Holy Spirit (Luke 11:13, with...

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

    _The Lord shall give us that which is good_ That is, all that is good in itself, and good for us; all spiritual and temporal blessings. _And our land shall yield her increase_ The effects of the incar...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good, which brings true happiness to the country; AND OUR LAND SHALL YIELD HER INCREASE, His blessings being apparent in both temporal and spiritual benefits....

  • 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...

  • 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

    THAT WHICH IS GOOD, i.e. all that is good in itself and for us, all spiritual and temporal blessings....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 85:12 LORD H3068 give H5414 (H8799) good H2896 land H776 yield H5414 (H8799) increase H2981 t

  • 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

    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

    _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 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 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 Corinthians 1:30; 1 Corinthians 3:6; Acts 2:41; Acts 21:20;...

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