Psalms 85:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Mercy and truth are met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַ֤ךְ ׀ קָר֣וֹב לִירֵאָ֣יו יִשְׁע֑וֹ לִשְׁכֹּ֖ן כָּב֣וֹד בְּאַרְצֵֽנוּ׃

Transliteration

ʾak near to-yərēʾāyw yišʿô to-šəkōn kābôd in-ʾarṣēnû

Grammar Details

• *ʾak*: adverb/particle - surely/only/indeed
• *yərēʾāyw*: masculine plural Qal participle with 3rd person masculine singular suffix with preposition lamed - to his fearers
• *yišʿô*: masculine singular noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his salvation
• *šəkōn*: Qal infinitive construct with preposition lamed - to dwell
• *kābôd*: masculine singular noun - glory
• *ʾarṣēnû*: feminine singular noun with 1st person plural suffix with preposition bet - in our land

Word Meanings

• *ʾak*: surely/only/indeed/certainly
• *yərēʾāyw*: those who fear him/his fearers/those in awe of him
• *yišʿô*: his salvation/deliverance/victory
• *šəkōn*: to dwell/inhabit/abide/reside
• *kābôd*: glory/honor/splendor

Referenced Verses

• Ps 72:3 : 3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, And the hills, in righteousness.
• Ps 89:14 : 14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of thy throne: Lovingkindness and truth go before thy face.
• Ps 100:5 : 5 For Jehovah is good; His lovingkindness [endureth] for ever, And his faithfulness unto all generations.
• Prov 3:3 : 3 Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart:
• Isa 32:16-18 : 16 Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field. 17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence for ever. 18 And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.
• Exod 34:6-7 : 6 And Jehovah passed by before him, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth; 7 keeping lovingkindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.
• Luke 1:54-55 : 54 He hath given help to Israel his servant, That he might remember mercy 55 (As he spake unto our fathers) Toward Abraham and {G4690} his seed for ever.
• Isa 45:24 : 24 Only in Jehovah, it is said of me, is righteousness and strength; even to him shall men come; and all they that were incensed against him shall be put to shame.
• Jer 23:5-6 : 5 Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. 6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is his name whereby he shall be called: Jehovah our righteousness.
• Mic 7:20 : 20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, [and] the lovingkindness to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
• Luke 2:14 : 14 Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace {G2107} among men in whom he is well pleased.
• John 1:17 : 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
• Rom 3:25-26 : 25 whom God set forth [to be] a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God; 26 for the showing, [I say], of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.
• Rom 5:1 : 1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
• Rom 5:21 : 21 that, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Heb 7:2 : 2 to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, {G3303} by interpretation, King of righteousness, and then also King of Salem, which is King of peace;