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11 [a]Kindness and faithfulness[b] will meet;
    righteousness and peace will embrace.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 85:11 People will regulate their lives by the divine norms. The divine attributes, as well as the moral virtues that correspond to them, are here personified (see Pss 89:15; 97:2) as courtiers of the returning king.
  2. Psalm 85:11 Kindness and faithfulness: often found together to express God’s loyalty (see Pss 25:10; 40:12f; 57:11; 61:8; Ex 34:6).

11 Faithfulness springs up from the ground,
    and righteousness looks down from the sky.

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11 Truth shall spring out of the earth,
And righteousness shall look down from heaven.

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