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Psalms 85:11

Psalms 85:11

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Truth shall spring out of the earth (comp. ). One result of the reconciliation of God's mercy and truth shall be a growth of righteousness among men. The pardoned people of God shall bring forth much fruit.

And righteousness shall look down from heaven. God's righteousness "looks down from heaven" (like the sun), to draw up and mature the feeble plant of man's righteousness, which, without it, would come to nothing.

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