Psalms 85:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Yea, Jehovah will give that which is good; And our land shall yield its increase.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֱ֭מֶת מֵאֶ֣רֶץ תִּצְמָ֑ח וְ֝צֶ֗דֶק מִשָּׁמַ֥יִם נִשְׁקָֽף׃

Transliteration

ʾĕmet from-ʾereṣ tiṣmāḥ and-ṣedeq from-šāmayim nišqāp

Grammar Details

*ʾĕmet*: feminine singular noun - truth
*ʾereṣ*: feminine singular noun with preposition min - from the earth/land
*tiṣmāḥ*: 3rd person feminine singular Qal imperfect - it will spring up
*ṣedeq*: masculine singular noun - righteousness
*šāmayim*: masculine plural noun with preposition min - from the heavens
*nišqāp*: 3rd person masculine singular Niphal perfect - it has looked down

Word Meanings

*ʾĕmet*: truth/faithfulness/reliability
*ʾereṣ*: earth/land/ground
*tiṣmāḥ*: it will spring up/sprout/grow
*ṣedeq*: righteousness/justice/rightness
*šāmayim*: heavens/sky
*nišqāp*: it has looked down/peered down/gazed down

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Jas 1:17 : 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.
Ps 67:6 : 6 The earth hath yielded its increase: God, even our own God, will bless us.
Ps 84:11 : 11 For Jehovah God is a sun and a shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Isa 30:23-24 : 23 And he will give the rain for thy seed, wherewith thou shalt sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous. In that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures; 24 the oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat savory provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
Isa 32:15 : 15 until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest.
Mic 6:8 : 8 He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Zech 8:12 : 12 For [there shall be] the seed of peace; the vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.
Matt 13:8 : 8 and others fell upon the good ground, and yielded fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Matt 13:23 : 23 And he that was sown upon the good ground, this is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; who verily beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Acts 2:41 : 41 They then that {G780} received his word were baptized: and there were added [unto them] in that day about three thousand souls.
Acts 21:20 : 20 And they, when they heard it, glorified God; and they said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of them that have believed; and they are all zealous for the law:
1 Cor 1:30 : 30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
Ps 72:16 : 16 There shall be abundance of grain in the earth upon the top of the mountains; The fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: And they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
Lev 26:4 : 4 then I will give your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
1 Cor 3:6-9 : 6 I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. 8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor. 9 For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building.
Eph 1:3 : 3 Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly [places] in Christ:

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