Psalms 85:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. ”

Psalms 85:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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,...
Psalms 85:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

LXXXV. Prayer for the Completion of Israel's Restoration. The Ps. falls clearly into two halves. Psalms 85:1-7 is a prayer to God. It begins ( Psalms 85:1-3 ) by commemorating God's mercy. He had...
Psalms 85:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

met. kissed. Figure of speech Prosopopoeia. App-6.
Psalms 85:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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 em...
Psalms 85:10 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 643 THE PERFECTIONS OF GOD RECONCILED IN CHRIST JESUS Psalms 85:9-10 . Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him, that glory may dwell in our land. Mercy and truth are met toget...
Psalms 85:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other . Mercy and truth are met together - It would be more simple to translate the original: - חסד ואמת נפגשו צדק ושלום...
Psalms 85:10 - 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 eart...
Psalms 85:10 - 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 perf...
Psalms 85:10 - 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 85:1-3 ), entreats Him to remove the displeasure that has again fallen on them, and...
Psalms 85:10 - 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 compl...
Psalms 85:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 85:1-13 THE outstanding peculiarity of this psalm is its sudden transitions of feeling. Beginning with exuberant thanksgiving for restoration of the nation ( Psalms 85:1-3 ), it passes, wit...
Psalms 85:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Prayer for the Nation Psalms 85:1-13 This psalm is the counterpart of Psalms 80:1-19 . There we see petitions ascending; here thanksgivings are returned. Evidently there had been granted som...
Psalms 85:10 - 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 dispo...
Psalms 85:10 - 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 ca...
Psalms 85:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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...
Psalms 85:10 - 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 pe...
Psalms 85:10 - 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 me...
Psalms 85:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Divine Answer to Prayer; Blessings Given in Answer to Prayer. 8 I will hear what God the L ORD will speak: for he will...
Psalms 85:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy 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...
Psalms 85:10 - 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 re...
Psalms 85:10 - 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 th...
Psalms 85:10 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 85:1-2 . 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....
Psalms 85:10 - 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, wh...
Psalms 85:10 - 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...
Psalms 85:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 c...
Psalms 85:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Psalms 85:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 34:6 ; Exodus 34:7 ; Hebrews 7:2 ; Isaiah 32:16-18 ; Isaiah 45:24 ; Jeremiah 23:5 ; Jeremiah 23:6 ; John 1:17 ; Luke 1:54 ; Luke 1:55 ; Luke 2:14 ; Micah 7:20 ; Psalms 10:1 ; Psa...
Psalms 85:10 - 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 promis...

Psalms 85:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 85:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 85:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 85:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 85:10 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Psalms 85:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 85:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 85:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 85:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 85:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 85:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 85:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 85:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 85:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 85:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 85:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 85:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 85:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 85:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 85:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 85:10 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 85:10 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 85:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 85:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 85:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 85:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 85:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 85:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes