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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.

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Footnotes

  1. 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.
  2. 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).
  3. 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).

11 Faithfulness springs forth from the earth,
    and righteousness(A) looks down from heaven.
12 The Lord will indeed give what is good,(B)
    and our land will yield(C) its harvest.

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