Psalms 85:8
I will hear what God, LORD, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, and to his sanctified. But let them not turn again to folly.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
7Show us thy loving kindness, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.
9Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:25Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I thy handmaid saw not the young men of my lord whom thou sent.
Psalms 50:5Gather my sanctified together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
Proverbs 25:11A word fitly spoken is apples of gold in a network of silver.
Isaiah 57:19I create the fruit of the lips. Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near, says LORD, and I will heal him.
Haggai 2:9The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says LORD of hosts, and in this place I will give peace, says LORD of hosts.
John 5:14After these things Jesus finds him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, thou have become well. Sin no more, lest something worse may happen to thee.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 85:2-8
Prayer in Time of Trouble. 1 Lord , thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob. 2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah. 3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger. 4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease. 5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations? 6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that… Read the whole commentary →