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10Mercy and truth are met together{H8738)}; righteousness and peace have kissed{H8804)} each other.

Psalms 85:10

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

  • Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

  • For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

  • Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. …

  • For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-13)

We have here an answer to the prayers and expostulations in the Ps. 85:1-7. I. In general, it is an answer of peace. This the psalmist is soon aware of (Ps. 85:8), for he stands upon his watch-tower to hear what God will say unto him , as the prophet, Hab. 2:1 , 2 . I will hear what God the Lord will speak . This intimates, 1. The stilling of his passions—his grief, his fear—and the tumult of his…

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