Psalms 85:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 85

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¹⁰Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Psalms 85:10 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 3:3
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
Psalms 89:14
Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
Psalms 100:5
For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
Isaiah 32:16-18
Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. …
John 1:17
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

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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 spir…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

10. God’s promises of “mercy” will be verified by His “truth” (compare Psa 25:10; 40:10); and the “work of righteousness” in His holy government shall be “peace” (Is 32:17). There is an implied contrast with a dispensation under which God’s truth sustains His threatened wrath, and His righteousness inflicts misery on the wicked.