Psalms 85:8

"Show us your loving kindness, LORD. Grant us your salvation."

Key Reflection

This verse beseeches God to reveal His mercy and provide deliverance, reflecting the psalmist's desire for both divine favor and rescue from distress, mirroring a universal human need for God’s saving grace and compassionate guidance.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

I will hear what God the Lord will speak -I, the psalmist; I, representing the people as looking to God. The state of mind here is that of patient listening; of a willingness to hear God, whatever God should say; of confidence in him that what he would say would be favorable to his people - would be words of mercy and of peace. Whatever God should command, the speaker was willing to yield to it; whatever God should say, he would believe; whatever God should enjoin, he would do; whatever God should ask him to surrender, he would resign. There was no other resource but God, and there was entire confidence in him that whatever he should say, require, or do, would be right.

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