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Psalm 84 (85) Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899

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Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · Psalm 85 · About the recordings

Notes on this text (2)

Psalm 84 in DRB = Psalm 85 in WEB.

DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 Unto the end, for the sons of Core, a psalm.
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2 Lord, thou hast blessed thy land: thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob.
85:1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.
3 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people: thou hast covered all their sins.
85:2 You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. Selah.
4 Thou hast mitigated all thy anger: thou best turned away from the wrath of thy indignation.
85:3 You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.
5 Convert us, O God our saviour: and turn off thy anger from us.
85:4 Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.
6 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever: or wilt thou extend thy wrath from generation to generation?
85:5 Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?
7 Thou wilt turn, O God, and bring us to life: and thy people shall rejoice in thee.
85:6 Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?
8 Shew us, O Lord, thy mercy; and grant us thy salvation.
85:7 Show us your loving kindness, Yahweh. Grant us your salvation.
9 I will hear what the Lord God will speak in me: for he will speak peace unto his people: And unto his saints: and unto them that are converted to the heart.
85:8 I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.
10 Surely his salvation is near to them that fear him: that glory may dwell in our land.
85:9 Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.
11 Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed.
85:10 Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
12 Truth is sprung out of the earth: and justice hath looked down from heaven.
85:11 Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven.
13 For the Lord will give goodness: and our earth shall yield her fruit.
85:12 Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.
14 Justice shall walk before him: and shall set his steps in the way.
85:13 Righteousness goes before him, and prepares the way for his steps.
Cross references (14)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info. References use English (Hebrew-based) verse numbers; links open the passage in DRB.

  1. 1 Jeremiah 30:18; Psalm 14:7; Ezekiel 39:25; Psalm 77:7; Joel 2:18
  2. 2 Jeremiah 30:18; Psalm 14:7; Ezekiel 39:25; Psalm 77:7; Joel 2:18
  3. 3 Micah 7:18; Psalm 32:1; Colossians 2:13; Jeremiah 50:20; Numbers 14:19
  4. 4 Psalm 106:23; Deuteronomy 13:17; Isaiah 12:1; Jonah 3:9; Psalm 78:38
  5. 5 Lamentations 5:21; Psalm 80:3; Psalm 80:7; Micah 7:7; Malachi 4:6
  6. 6 Psalm 79:5; Psalm 80:4; Isaiah 64:9–12; Psalm 74:1; Micah 7:18
  7. 7 Psalm 80:18; Habakkuk 3:2; Psalm 90:14; Isaiah 57:15; Hosea 6:2
  8. 8 Psalm 91:16; Psalm 50:23; Jeremiah 42:12
  9. 9 Psalm 29:11; Revelation 3:19; John 14:27; Zechariah 9:10; Habakkuk 2:1
  10. 10 Isaiah 46:13; Zechariah 2:5; John 7:17; Zechariah 2:8; Luke 2:32
  11. 11 Proverbs 3:3; Psalm 89:14; John 1:17; Isaiah 32:16–18; Psalm 100:5
  12. 12 John 14:6; Isaiah 45:8; 1 John 5:20–21; Matthew 17:5; Isaiah 42:21
  13. 13 James 1:17; Psalm 84:11; Psalm 67:6; Leviticus 26:4; Isaiah 30:23–24
  14. 14 Psalm 89:14; John 13:34; 1 John 2:6; 1 Peter 2:18–24; 1 Peter 4:1

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

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). Verse numbers below follow the Hebrew/English numbering: 85.

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).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm LXXXIV)

    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)

  2. Quotes verse 85:11 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XIV)

    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)