Psalms 85:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 85

⁸I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

Psalms 85:8 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 29:11
The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.
Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Zechariah 9:10
And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
Habakkuk 2:1
I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
John 14:27
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

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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. 8)

8. He is confident God will favor His penitent people (Psa 51:17; 80:18). saints--as in Psa 4:3, the “godly.”