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Psalms 85:10
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Faithful love and truth will join together;righteousness and peace will embrace.
Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and shalom have kissed each other.
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other.
Love and truth belong to God's people; goodness and peace will be theirs.
Loyal love and faithfulness meet; deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss.
Steadfast love and truth and faithfulness meet together; Righteousness and peace kiss each other.
Graciousness and truth have met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Mercie and trueth shall meete: righteousnes and peace shall kisse one another.
Lovingkindness and truth have met together;Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Loving devotion and faithfulness have joined together; righteousness and peace have kissed.
His salvation is near for those who fear him, so that glory will be in our land.
Loving-kindness and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other:
God's love will come together with his faithful people. Goodness and peace will greet them with a kiss.
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace will embrace.
Loyal love and faithfulness will meet one another; righteousness and peace will kiss.
Mercy and truth have met together; righteousness and peace kissed each other .
Mercy and trueth are met together, rightuousnesse and peace kysse ech other.
Mercy and truth are met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Mercy and faith have come together; righteousness and peace have given one another a kiss.
Surely His salvation is nigh them that fear Him; that glory may dwell in our land.
Mercy and truth are met together: righteousnesse and peace haue kissed each other.
Mercy and trueth are met together: righteousnes and peace haue kissed [eche other.]
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Merci and treuthe metten hem silf; riytwisnesse and pees weren kissid.
Mercy and truth are met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed [each other].
Mercy and truth have met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed.
Unfailing love and truth have met together. Righteousness and peace have kissed!
Loving-kindness and truth have met together. Peace and what is right and good have kissed each other.
Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace will kiss each other.
Lovingkindness and faithfulness, have met together, Righteousness and prosperity, have kissed each other;
(84-11) Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed.
Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace will kiss each other.
Kindness and truth have met, Righteousness and peace have kissed,
Love and Truth meet in the street, Right Living and Whole Living embrace and kiss! Truth sprouts green from the ground, Right Living pours down from the skies! Oh yes! God gives Goodness and Beauty; our land responds with Bounty and Blessing. Right Living strides out before him, and clears a path for his passage.
Lovingkindness and truth have met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Mercy: Psalms 89:14, Psalms 100:5, Exodus 34:6, Exodus 34:7, Micah 7:20, Luke 1:54, Luke 1:55, John 1:17
righteousness: Psalms 72:3, Isaiah 32:16-18, Isaiah 45:24, Jeremiah 23:5, Jeremiah 23:6, Luke 2:14, Romans 3:25, Romans 3:26, Romans 5:1, Romans 5:21, Hebrews 7:2
Reciprocal: Genesis 32:10 - truth 2 Samuel 15:20 - mercy Psalms 25:10 - mercy Psalms 26:3 - For Psalms 29:11 - give Psalms 33:4 - all his Psalms 40:11 - let thy Psalms 57:10 - For Psalms 86:15 - mercy Psalms 108:4 - thy mercy Psalms 111:7 - works Psalms 117:2 - General Psalms 138:2 - and praise Proverbs 16:6 - mercy Isaiah 9:6 - The Prince of Peace Isaiah 16:5 - in mercy Isaiah 53:10 - the pleasure Jeremiah 33:6 - and will Hosea 2:19 - in righteousness Luke 1:79 - to guide John 14:27 - Peace I leave Acts 10:36 - preaching Ephesians 2:17 - and preached Ephesians 4:21 - as Colossians 1:20 - having made peace James 2:13 - and Revelation 15:3 - just
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Mercy and truth are met together,.... Or "grace and truth" p, which are in Christ, and come by him; and so may be said to meet in him, the glorious Person, the Author of salvation, before mentioned, John 1:14, these may be considered as perfections in God, displayed in salvation by Christ: "mercy" is the original of it; it is owing to that that the dayspring from on high visited us, or glory dwelt in our land, or Christ was sent and came to work salvation for us; it was pity to the lost human race which moved God to send him, and him to come, who is the merciful as well as faithful High Priest, and who in his love and pity redeemed us; and though there was no mercy shown to him, he not being spared in the least, yet there was to us; and which appears in the whole of our salvation, and in every part of it, in our regeneration, pardon, and eternal life; see Luke 1:72 1 Peter 1:3 or "grace", the exceeding riches of which are shown forth in the kindness of God to us, through Christ; and to which our salvation, in whole and in part, is to be attributed, Ephesians 2:7, "truth" may signify the veracity and faithfulness of God, in his promises and threatenings: his promises have their true and full accomplishment in Christ, Luke 1:72 so have his threatenings of death to sinful men, he being the surety for them, Genesis 2:17 and so mercy is shown to man, and God is true to his word:
righteousness and peace have kissed each other; as friends at meeting used to do: "righteousness" may intend the essential justice of God, which will not admit of the pardon and justification of a sinner, without a satisfaction; wherefore Christ was set forth to be the propitiation for sin, to declare and manifest the righteousness of God, his strict justice; that he might be just, and appear to be so, when he is the justifier of him that believes in Jesus; and Christ's blood being shed, and his sacrifice offered up, he is just and faithful to forgive sin, and cleanse from all unrighteousness, Exodus 34:6 Romans 3:25 and thus the law being magnified, and made honourable by the obedience and sufferings of Christ, an everlasting righteousness being brought in, and justice entirely satisfied, there is "peace" on earth, and good will to men: peace with God is made by Christ the peacemaker, and so the glory of divine justice is secured and peace with God for men obtained, in a way consistent with it, Luke 2:14 and Christ's righteousness being imputed and applied to men, and received by faith, produces a conscience peace, an inward peace of mind, which passeth all understanding, Romans 5:1.
p חסד ואמת "gratia et veritas", Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Mercy and truth are met together - That is, in the divine dealings referred to in the psalm. There has been a blending of mercy and truth in those dealings; or, both have been manifested; truth, in the divine statements, threatenings, and promises; and mercy, in forgiving sin, and in sparing the people. There is no necessary contradiction between truth and mercy; that is, the one does not necessarily conflict with the other, though the one seems to conflict with the other when punishment is threatened for crime, and yet mercy is shown to the offender - that is, where the punishment is not inflicted, and the offender is treated as if he had not sinned. In this respect, the great difficulty in all human governments has been to maintain both; to be true to the threatening of the law, and at the same time to pardon the guilty. Human governments have never been able to reconcile the two.
If punishment is inflicted up to the full measure of the threatening, there is no manifestation of mercy; if mercy is shown, there is a departure from justice, or a declaration that the threatenings of the law are not, in all cases, to be inflicted: that is, there is, to that extent, an abandonment of justice. Human governments have always felt the need, in their practical operations, of some device like an atonement, by which the two might be blended, and both secured. Such a method of reconciliation or of securing both objects - truth, in the fulfillment of the threat, and mercy toward the offender - has never been (and could not be) acted on in a human administration. It is only in the divine government that this has been accomplished, where a true and perfect regard has been paid to truth in the threatening, and to mercy toward the guilty by an atonement. It is true, indeed, that this passage does not refer to the atonement made by the Redeemer, but there can scarcely be found a better illustration of that work than occurs in the language used here. Compare the notes at Romans 3:26. See also my work on the “atonement,” chapters ii., iii.
Righteousness - In the maintenance of law, or the manifestation of justice. That is, in this case, God had shown his justice in bringing these calamities on the people for their sins. In the work of the Redeemer this was done by his being “wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities;” by the fact that “the chastisement of our peace was upon him,” and that “the Lord laid on him the iniquity of us all.” Isaiah 53:5-6. “And peace.” Pardon; mercy; restoration to favor. In the case of the Hebrew people this was done by his removing the calamities which their sins had brought upon them, and by his returning favor. In the work of redemption, it was done by the pardon of sin, and by reconciliation to God.
Have kissed each other - As friends and lovers do; as they do who have been long separated; as they do who, after having been alienated and estranged, are made friends again. In like manner, there seemed to be an alienation - an estrangement - a state of hostility - between righteousness and mercy, between justice and pardon, but they have been now united as separated and alienated friends are, and have embraced each other as such friends do; that is, they blend together in beautiful harmony.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 85:10. Mercy and truth are met together — It would be more simple to translate the original,-
חסד ואמת נפגשו
צדק ושלום נשקו
Chesed veemeth niphgashu;
Tsedek veshalom nashaku,--
"Mercy and truth have met on the way
Righteousness and peace have embraced."
This is a remarkable text, and much has been said on it: but there is a beauty in it which, I think, has not been noticed.
Mercy and peace are on one side; truth and righteousness on the other. Truth requires righteousness; mercy calls for peace.
They meet together on the way; one going to make inquisition for sin, the other to plead for reconciliation. Having met, their differences on certain considerations, not here particularly mentioned, are adjusted; and their mutual claims are blended together in one common interest; on which peace and righteousness immediately embrace. Thus, righteousness is given to truth, and peace is given to mercy.
Now, Where did these meet? In Christ Jesus.
When were they reconciled? When he poured out his life on Calvary.
