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. 2 You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. Selah. 3 You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger. 4 Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease. 5 Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations? 6 Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you? 7 Show us your loving kindness, Yahweh. Grant us your salvation. 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. 9 Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land. 10 Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. 11 Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven. 12 Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase. 13 Righteousness goes before him, and prepares the way for his steps.
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Psalm 85 World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
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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).
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“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)