= Psalm 85 * Please see [[nsv:license|License]] for Copyright notice and Licensing information. * [ [[Psalm_84|Previous]] | [[Psalm_86|Next]] ] == Psalm 85 1 Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob. 2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah. 3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger. 4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease. 5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations? 6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee? 7 Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation. 8 I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly. 9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land. 10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. 11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. 12 Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase. 13 Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps. == Notes == Cross Reference == Concordance == Commentary == Rashi ==== Verse 2 O Lord, You have appeased Your land, etc. If You have returned the captivity of Jacob and forgiven their iniquity, and have concealed their sin and withdrawn Your wrath from them and retreated from Your fierce anger, then You have appeased Your land, and Your world will be appeased. But as long as You do not do this, Your land and Your world will not be appeased. ==== Verse 5 Return us You return and bring us back. ==== Verse 7 Will You not ultimately return and revive us, for [so] You promised us through Your prophet. ==== Verse 9 I shall hear what God will speak I shall merit to hear what the Holy One, blessed be He, will speak when He speaks peace to His people. to folly Heb. לכסלה, to foolishness, to sin before Him. ==== Verse 11 Kindness and truth have met That Israel will speak truth, and from heaven kindness will meet them. righteousness and peace have kissed The righteousness [or charity] that Israel was performing and the peace from the Holy One, blessed be He, will kiss one another, i.e., the act of charity will be peace (Isa. 32:12). ==== Verse 12 Truth will sprout from the earth, etc. When Israel will speak truth, the charity that they perform on earth will look down from heaven. ==== Verse 13 God too will give good He will open His treasury, the heavens, to give rain, in order that His land yield its produce. ==== Verse 14 and He will place it on the way of his steps And the Holy One, blessed be He, will place the righteousness in the ways of his steps, with which he leads his sons.