mercy. lovingkindness, or grace.
Shew us thy mercy, O Lord - That is, Manifest thy mercy in returning to us; in forgiving our sins; in taking from us the tokens of thy displeasur...
Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy (e) salvation. (e) He confesses that our salvation comes only from God's mercy.
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 ( Ps...
7. Show us thy mercy, O Jehovah! In these words there is the same contrast as in the preceding sentence. In supplicating that mercy may be e...
Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation. Show us thy mercy - Blot out all our sins. And grant us thy salvation - Give us such a comple...
Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation. No JFB commentary on this verse.
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 t...
Psalms 85:1-13 THE outstanding peculiarity of this psalm is its sudden transitions of feeling. Beginning with exuberant thanksgiving for restorati...
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...
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...
These are divine breathings, and they speak the language of a truly awakened, regenerated, pardoned sinner. These cries suit the church, and every me...
Show us thy mercy, O Lord ,.... Or, "thy grace" o and goodness, the riches of which are shown forth in Christ; the mercy promised to Abraham and oth...
Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation. Ver. 7. Show us thy mercy, O Lord ] Thy fatherly mercy, στοργην . And grant us thy sal...
Prayer in Time of Trouble. To the chief musician. A psalm for the sons of K...
Show us thy mercy, i.e. grant it to us, as the next words explain it, and as showing signifies, Psalms 4:6 ; so also Psalms 60:3 , Psalms 71:...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the chief Musician .” See Introduction to Psalms 57 . “ A Psalm for the sons of Korah . “See Introduction to P...
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 th...
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...
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 i...
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,...
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 con...
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 o...
Show us Thy mercy, O Lord, letting them see and enjoy it, and grant us Thy salvation, the idea of merit being excluded altogether.
Jeremiah 42:12 ; Psalms 50:23 ; Psalms 91:16
7 Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.