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Psalm 85:10-12
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10 Loyal love and faithfulness meet;[a]
deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss.[b]
11 Faithfulness grows from the ground,
and deliverance looks down from the sky.[c]
12 Yes, the Lord will bestow his good blessings,[d]
and our land will yield[e] its crops.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 85:10 tn The psalmist probably uses the perfect verbal forms in v. 10 in a dramatic or rhetorical manner, describing what he anticipates as if it were already occurring or had already occurred.
  2. Psalm 85:10 sn Deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss. The psalmist personifies these abstract qualities to emphasize that God’s loyal love and faithfulness will yield deliverance and peace for his people.
  3. Psalm 85:11 sn The psalmist already sees undeniable signs of God’s faithfulness and expects deliverance to arrive soon.
  4. Psalm 85:12 tn Heb “what is good.”
  5. Psalm 85:12 tn Both “bestow” and “yield” translate the same Hebrew verb (נָתַן, natan). The repetition of the word emphasizes that agricultural prosperity is the direct result of divine blessing.
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