Psalms 85:10
Loving devotion and faithfulness have joined together; righteousness and peace have kissed.
BSB
ASV
Mercy and truth are met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
KJV
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed. Mercy and truth have met. I see two things, which by coming together and meeting become one. Justice and peace have kissed. All this is fitted to the mystery of the Lord and Savior: this is the Son of God and of man, who is for us truth, mercy, peace, and justice, in whom the justice of the former people and the mercy of the latter are joined together into one peace. "For he himself," says the Apostle, "is our peace, who has made both one."
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.
Mercy and truth are met together. In answer to prayer, the exulting psalmist sees the attributes of God confederating to bless the once afflicted nation. Mercy comes hand in hand with Truth to fulfil the faithful promise of their gracious God; the people recognise at once the grace and the veracity of Jehovah, he is to them neither a tyrant nor a deceiver. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. The Lord whose just severity inflicted the smart, now in pity sends peace to bind up the wound.
God's promises of "mercy" will be verified by His "truth" (compare Ps 25:10; 40:10); and the "work of righteousness" in His holy government shall be "peace" (Isa 32:17). There is an implied contrast with a dispensation under which God's truth sustains His threatened wrath, and His righteousness inflicts misery on the wicked.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
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Psalms 100:5For the LORD is good, and His loving devotion endures forever; His faithfulness continues to all generations.
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Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.
Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.
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Proverbs 3:3Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
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It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on…
Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
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John 1:17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
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For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.