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Psalms 85:11
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Truth springs up from the earth,And righteousness looks down from heaven.
Truth springs from the earth, And righteousness looks down from heaven.
Trueth shall bud out of the earth: and ryghteousnes shall looke downe from heauen.
Truth shall spring out of the earth, and righteousness shall look down from the heavens.
Truth shall spring out of the earth, And righteousness shall look down from heaven.
Truth shall sprout out of the earth, and righteousness looks down from Heaven.
People on earth will be loyal to God, and God in heaven will be good to them.
Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven.
Truth shall spring out of the earth: and righteousnesse shall looke downe from heauen.
Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
Trueth shal ryse out of ye earth, and rightuousnesse shall loke downe from heauen.
Truth springs from the earth, And righteousness looks down from heaven.
Truth springeth out of the earth; And righteousness hath looked down from heaven.
Faith comes up from the earth like a plant; righteousness is looking down from heaven.
Truth springs out of the earth; And righteousness has looked down from heaven.
Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
Faithfulness grows from the ground, and deliverance looks down from the sky.
Loyalty will sprout from the ground; justice will look down from the sky above.
Grace and truth have met together; justice and peace have kissed each other.
Trueth shall bud out of the earth, and righteousnes shall looke downe from heauen.
Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
Truth springs out of the eretz. Righteousness has looked down from heaven.
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Truth comes up from the earth. And what is right and good looks down from heaven.
Truth springeth out of the earth; and righteousness hath looked clown from heaven.
Faithfulness sprouts from the earth, and righteousness looks down from heaven.
Faithfulness will spring up from the ground, and righteousness will look down from the sky.
Faithfulness, out of the earth, doth spring forth, And, righteousness, out of the heavens, hath looked down.
(84-12) Truth is sprung out of the earth: and justice hath looked down from heaven.
Faithfulness will sprout from the ground, and righteousness will look down from heaven.
Faithfulness springs up from the ground, and righteousness looks down from the sky.
Truth sprouts from the earth, And righteousness looks down from heaven.
On earth people will be loyal to God, and God's goodness will shine down from heaven.
Human loyalty will reach up from the earth, and God's righteousness will look down from heaven.
Truth will spring up from the earth, and righteousness will look down from heaven.
Treuthe cam forth of erthe; and riytfulnesse bihelde fro heuene.
Truth from the earth springeth up, And righteousness from heaven looketh out,
Faithfulness will spring up from the ground, and righteousness will look down from the sky.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Truth: Isaiah 4:2, Isaiah 45:8, Isaiah 53:2, John 14:6, 1 John 5:20, 1 John 5:21
righteousness: Isaiah 42:21, Matthew 3:17, Matthew 17:5, Luke 2:14, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Ephesians 1:6
Reciprocal: Psalms 33:4 - all his Psalms 57:10 - For Psalms 72:3 - by righteousness Song of Solomon 2:1 - the rose Isaiah 61:11 - so Romans 3:26 - that he Ephesians 4:21 - as Colossians 1:20 - having made peace Hebrews 7:2 - King of righteousness Revelation 15:3 - just
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Truth shall spring out of the earth,.... Either the Gospel, the word of truth, which sprung up at once in the land of Judea, as if it came out of the earth; and from Zion and Jerusalem it came forth into the Gentile world: or else the truth of grace God desires in the inward parts, and which springs up in such who are like cultivated earth, or good ground, being made so by the Spirit and grace of God, particularly the grace of "faith"; by which some render the word q here, which springs up in the heart, and, with it, man believes to righteousness: or rather Christ himself, "who is the way, the truth, and the life"; who, though he is the Lord from heaven, yet may be said, with respect to his incarnation, to spring out of the earth, he taking flesh of the virgin: hence his human nature is said to be "curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth"; and "that new thing created in the earth", Psalms 139:15
and righteousness shall look down from heaven: the justice of God, or the righteous God, shall look down from heaven on Christ, the truth, in our nature on earth, with pleasure beholding his obedience, sufferings and death, sacrifice and righteousness; being well pleased with him, and with all he did and suffered, and with all his people, considered in him: these upright and righteous ones his countenance beholds with delight, as they are clothed with Christ's righteousness, washed in his blood, and their sins expiated by his sacrifice, and as they are hoping in his mercy, and trusting in his Son.
q אמת fides. Tigurine version, Musculus, Junius & Tremellius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Truth shall spring out of the earth - As plants do - for this is the meaning of the word. The blessings of truth and righteousness would be like the grass, the shrubs, the flowers, which spring up from the ground - and like the, rain and the sunbeams which come from heaven. Truth would spring up everywhere, and abound in all lands, as plants, and shrubs, and grass spring up all over the earth. There is not an intended contrast between the two clauses of this verse, as if truth came from the earth, and righteousness from heaven; but the idea is that they would come in a manner that might be compared with the way in which God’s other abundant blessings are bestowed, as springing, on the one hand, from the fertility of the earth, and on the other, from the rain, the dew, and the sunbeam.
And righteousness shall look down from heaven - Shall descend from heaven; or shall come from above - as if the rain, and the sun looked down from heaven, and saw the needs of man. The original word here rendered “look down” - שׁקף shâqaph - means to lay upon, or over; then, to project, lie over, look forward; then, to overhang; and the idea here is that it bent over, or leaned forward to look at the necessities of than - as one does who is desirous of gazing at an object. There was an anxiety, so to speak, to come to the earth - to meet the human need. As the rain and the sunbeams seem anxious to bestow their blessings on man, so God seems anxious to bestow on man the blessings of salvation.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 85:11. Truth shall spring out of the earth — In consequence of this wonderful reconciliation, the truth of God shall prevail among men. The seeds of it shall be so plentifully sown by the preaching of Christ and his apostles that true religion shall be diffused over the world.
And righteousness shall look down from heaven. — And be delighted with the reformation of the sons of Adam; and shall be so satisfied with the glorious work which is carried forward, that,
