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Psalm 85:11-12
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 85:11-12
New Catholic Bible
11 [a]Kindness and faithfulness[b] will meet;
righteousness and peace will embrace.
12 Faithfulness will spring forth from the earth,
and righteousness[c] will look down from heaven.
Footnotes
- Psalm 85:11 People will regulate their lives by the divine norms. The divine attributes, as well as the moral virtues that correspond to them, are here personified (see Pss 89:15; 97:2) as courtiers of the returning king.
- Psalm 85:11 Kindness and faithfulness: often found together to express God’s loyalty (see Pss 25:10; 40:12f; 57:11; 61:8; Ex 34:6).
- Psalm 85:12 Righteousness: personification of God’s attribute, which expresses his kingship in and over his people (see Pss 4:2; 22:31, alternative translation).
