Psalms 85:10

World English Bible (2000)

Mercy and truth meet 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 prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.
• Ps 89:14 : 14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
• Ps 100:5 : 5 For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations. A Psalm by David.
• Prov 3:3 : 3 Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
• Isa 32:16-18 : 16 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field. 17 The work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever. 18 My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
• Exod 34:6-7 : 6 Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, "Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, 7 keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."
• Luke 1:54-55 : 54 He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy, 55 As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and his seed forever."
• Isa 45:24 : 24 They will say of me, 'There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.'" Even to him shall men come; and all those who were incensed against him shall be disappointed.
• Jer 23:5-6 : 5 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will raise to 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 by which he shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
• Mic 7:20 : 20 You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
• Luke 2:14 : 14 "Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men."
• John 1:17 : 17 For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
• Rom 3:25-26 : 25 whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God's forbearance; 26 to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has 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 grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Heb 7:2 : 2 to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace;