85:11 Faithfulness grows from the ground,
and deliverance looks down from the sky. 1
85:12 Yes, the Lord will bestow his good blessings, 2
and our land will yield 3 its crops.
1 sn The psalmist already sees undeniable signs of God’s faithfulness and expects deliverance to arrive soon.
2 tn Heb “what is good.”
3 tn Both “bestow” and “yield” translate the same Hebrew verb (נָתַן, natan). The repetition of the word emphasizes that agricultural prosperity is the direct result of divine blessing.