Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
Truth springeth out of the earth; And righteousness hath looked down from heaven.
Truth from the earth springeth up, And righteousness from heaven looketh out,
Truth shall spring out of the earth, and righteousness shall look down from the heavens.
Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.
Voices7
Truth has sprung up out of the earth. "I am the way and the truth and the life." He who said, I am the truth, has sprung up out of the earth. What is this truth, which has sprung up out of the earth? "There shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up from his root." And in another place: "For God has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth." What do you say, Manichaean, who deny that the Savior had flesh?
Jerome· Homily 17, on Psalm 84, 420patristic
Truth shall spring out of the earth,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
Ver. 11. Truth shall spring out of the earth. Promises which lie unfulfilled, like buried seeds, shall spring up and yield harvests of joy; and men renewed by grace shall learn to be true to one another and their God, and abhor the falsehood which they loved before. And righteousness shall look down from heaven, as if it threw up the windows and leaned out to gaze upon a penitent people, whom it could not have looked upon before without an indignation which would have been fatal to them. This is a delicious scene.
Earth and heaven shall abound with the blessings of this government; 12, 13. and, under this, the deserted land shall be productive, and men be "set," or guided in God's holy ways. Doubtless, in this description of God's returning favor, the writer had in view that more glorious period, when Christ shall establish His government on God's reconciled justice and abounding mercy.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed
Righteousness - And God's justice shall be satisfied: he shall look down upon sinful men with a smiling countenance.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765evangelical
7 show us thy mercy, O L ORD , and grant us thy salvation. The church, in affliction and distress, is here, by direction from God, making her application to God. So ready is God to hear and answer the prayers of his people that by his Spirit in the word, and in the heart, he indites their petitions and puts words into their mouths.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
In him who is both our salvation and our glory mercy and truth have met together; God's mercy and truth, and his righteousness and peace, have kissed each other; that is, the great affair of our salvation is so well contrived, so well concerted, that God may have mercy upon poor sinners, and be at peace with them, without any wrong to his truth and righteousness.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
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The walk8
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John 14:6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
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Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.
For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.
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Matthew 17:5While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”
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And a voice from heaven said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!”
“Here is My Servant, whom I have chosen, My beloved, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will proclaim justice to the nations.
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Isaiah 45:8Drip down, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout and righteousness spring up with it; I, the LORD, have created it.
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Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
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Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Drip down, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout and righteousness spring up with it; I, the LORD, have created it.
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious.
While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”
For as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden enables seed to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom His favor rests!”
On that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of Israel’s survivors.
He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.
And a voice from heaven said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!”
to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
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Song of Solomon1
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