1 To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. Lord, you were good to your land: changing the fate of Jacob. 2 The wrongdoing of your people had forgiveness; all their sin had been covered. (Selah.) 3 You were no longer angry: you were turned from the heat of your wrath. 4 Come back to us, O God of our salvation, and be angry with us no longer. 5 Will you go on being angry with us for ever? will you keep your wrath against us through all the long generations? 6 Will you not give us life again, so that your people may be glad in you? 7 Let us see your mercy, O Lord, and give us your salvation. 8 I will give ear to the voice of the Lord; for he will say words of peace to his people and to his saints; but let them not go back to their foolish ways. 9 Truly, his salvation is near to his worshippers; so that glory may be in our land. 10 Mercy and faith have come together; righteousness and peace have given one another a kiss. 11 Faith comes up from the earth like a plant; righteousness is looking down from heaven. 12 The Lord will give what is good; and our land will give its increase. 13 Righteousness will go before him, making a way for his footsteps.
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Psalm 85 Bible in Basic English
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Notes on this text (1)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
Cross references (13)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 30:18; Psalm 14:7; Ezekiel 39:25; Psalm 77:7; Joel 2:18
- 2 Micah 7:18; Psalm 32:1; Colossians 2:13; Jeremiah 50:20; Numbers 14:19
- 3 Psalm 106:23; Deuteronomy 13:17; Isaiah 12:1; Jonah 3:9; Psalm 78:38
- 4 Lamentations 5:21; Psalm 80:3; Psalm 80:7; Micah 7:7; Malachi 4:6
- 5 Psalm 79:5; Psalm 80:4; Isaiah 64:9–12; Psalm 74:1; Micah 7:18
- 6 Psalm 80:18; Habakkuk 3:2; Psalm 90:14; Isaiah 57:15; Hosea 6:2
- 7 Psalm 91:16; Psalm 50:23; Jeremiah 42:12
- 8 Psalm 29:11; Revelation 3:19; John 14:27; Zechariah 9:10; Habakkuk 2:1
- 9 Isaiah 46:13; Zechariah 2:5; John 7:17; Zechariah 2:8; Luke 2:32
- 10 Proverbs 3:3; Psalm 89:14; John 1:17; Isaiah 32:16–18; Psalm 100:5
- 11 John 14:6; Isaiah 45:8; 1 John 5:20–21; Matthew 17:5; Isaiah 42:21
- 12 James 1:17; Psalm 84:11; Psalm 67:6; Leviticus 26:4; Isaiah 30:23–24
- 13 Psalm 89:14; John 13:34; 1 John 2:6; 1 Peter 2:18–24; 1 Peter 4:1
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
This Psalm is entitled, "For the winepresses." And, as you observed with me, my beloved (for I saw that you attended most closely), nothing is said in its text either of any press, or wine-basket, or vat, or of any of the instruments or the building of a winepress; nothing of this kind did we hear read; so that it …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
The earth was condemned to thorns and thistles: the true Vine sprang up out of the earth, that the saying might be fulfilled, Truth sprang up out of the earth, and righteousness looked down from heaven.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)