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Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Psalms 85:1-13

Psalms 85-86 The steadfast love of GodIsrael had again suffered God’s punishment in being defeated by its enemies. The psalmist reminds God that when this happened in the past, God forgave his people and poured out his blessings on them afresh (85:1-3). Would he not, therefore, in the present crisis do the same once more (4-7)? The psalmist thinks longingly of the spiritual paradise that results when people are living in a right relation with their God. Steadfast love flows down from God and is... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 85:1-3

The writer began by thanking God for delivering His people. The reference to restoration from captivity (Psalms 85:1) suggests that this psalm may date to the return from Babylonian exile. However, the psalmist may have been referring to a more modest captivity, perhaps at the hand of a neighbor nation. In any case, he viewed Israel’s former enslavement to be the result of her sin and thanked God for pardoning that."In Psalms 85:3 a sin is conceived as a burden of the conscience; in Psalms 85:3... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 85:1-13

Psalms 85An anonymous psalmist thanked God for forgiving and restoring His sinning people. He prayed that God would remove His wrath from them and expressed confidence in the nation’s future. Perhaps the genre is a national lament. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 85:1-13

This Ps. looks back upon the mercy which God has shown to His people in bringing them back from captivity (Psalms 85:1-3), entreats Him to remove the displeasure that has again fallen on them, and to deliver them f6rom present troubles (Psalms 85:4-7), and ends with a hopeful picture of the blessings that will follow the answering of the prayer (Psalms 85:8-13). It evidently belongs to a time soon after the return from the Babylonian exile—either the days of discouragement before the building... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Psalms 85:1-13

The Prayer of a Patriot Psalms 85:6 An old commentator has summed up the purport of this Psalm in the following words: 'The prayer of a patriot for his afflicted country, in which he pleads God's former mercies and by faith foresees better days'. Such a Psalm reminds us, first of all, that a good Christian must be a good patriot, ardently concerned for the truest welfare of his own people and his native land. Moreover, it suggests that we may appropriate to this England of ours in a modified... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 85:1-13

Psalms 85:1-13THE outstanding peculiarity of this psalm is its sudden transitions of feeling. Beginning with exuberant thanksgiving for restoration of the nation (Psalms 85:1-3), it passes, without intermediate gradations, to complaints of God’s continued wrath and entreaties for restoration (Psalms 85:4-7). and then as suddenly rises to joyous assurance of inward and outward blessings. The condition of the exiles returned from Babylon best corresponds to such conflicting emotions. The book of... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Psalms 85:1-13

Psalms 85:0 All Promised Blessings Realized 1. What grace has done (Psalms 85:1-3 ) 2. Prayer for the fulfilment (Psalms 85:4-9 ) 3. Righteousness and peace (Psalms 85:10-13 ) What will come to Israel when Christ returns to be their King is blessedly made known in the opening verses of this other Korah Psalm. Favour will rest upon the land; the captivity of Jacob is brought back, their iniquity is forgiven and their sin covered; His wrath is turned away. Hence they pray that all this may... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Psalms 85:3

85:3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned [thyself] from the {c} fierceness of thine anger.(c) Not only in withdrawing your rod, but in forgiving sins, and in touching our hearts to confess them. read more

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