“ Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee? ”
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 Sep...
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...
The godly, still dwelling on the same theme, ask, in the 6 verse, whether God will not turn again and quicken them Being fully convinced of the truth of this principle, That the punishments...
Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee? Wilt thou not revive us - We have long had the sentence of death in ourselves; and have feared an utter extinction. Shall not our n...
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 resto...
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 Psalms 85:4 . "turn us"), 'Wilt thou not turn (and) revive us...
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 85:1-13 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 the...
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?...
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 r...
Prayer in Time of Trouble. To the chief musician. A psalm for the sons of Korah. 1 L ORD , thou hast been favourable...
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.
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 85:6 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 o...
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 85:1 . 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...
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...
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...
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...
Ezra 3:11-13 ; Ezra 9:8 ; Ezra 9:9 ; Habakkuk 3:2 ; Hosea 6:2 ; Isaiah 57:15 ; Jeremiah 33:11 ; Psalms 53:6 ; Psalms 13:1 ; Psalms 80:18
Revive us — Give us a second reviving in bringing home the rest of our brethren, and in restraining our enemies.