Psalms 85:11

Truth — Truth among men. Righteousness — And God's justice shall be satisfied: he shall look down upon sinful men with a smiling countenance.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 85:11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(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,...
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 ( Ps...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

earth . land. Same word as verses: Psalms 85:1 ; Psalms 85:9 ; Psalms 85:12 .
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. Truth shall spring out of the earth - In consequence of this wond...
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 embracin...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness sh...
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 t...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

12. Material prosperity will accompany spiritual blessings.
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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Truth, or “faithfulness,” is here depicted as springing out of the earth, because the renewal of fertility has re-established the conviction of the...
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 restorati...
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...
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...
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 pers...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 t...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 a...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 rathe...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Divine Answer to Prayer; Blessings Given in Answer to Prayer. 8 I wil...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 rat...
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 P...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 85:10-13 These four verses are a fourfold picture of how heaven and earth ought to blend and harmonise. I. Take the first verse: "Mercy an...
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 th...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
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 i...
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,...
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 i...
The Biblical Illustrator

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 hist...
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 con...
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 o...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 5:20 ; 1 John 5:21 ; 2 Corinthians 5:21 ; Ephesians 1:6 ; Isaiah 4:2 ; Isaiah 42:21 ; Isaiah 45:8 ; Isaiah 53:2 ; John 14:6 ; Luke 2...

¹¹ Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 85:11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 85:11