Discovery BoxPsalms 85:9-12 
Context85:9 Certainly his loyal followers will soon experience his deliverance; 1
then his splendor will again appear in our land. 2
85:10 Loyal love and faithfulness meet; 3
deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss. 4
85:11 Faithfulness grows from the ground,
and deliverance looks down from the sky. 5
85:12 Yes, the Lord will bestow his good blessings, 6
and our land will yield 7 its crops.
1 tn Heb “certainly his deliverance [is] near to those who fear him.”
2 tn Heb “to dwell, glory, in our land.” “Glory” is the subject of the infinitive. The infinitive with -לְ (lÿ), “to dwell,” probably indicates result here (“then”). When God delivers his people and renews his relationship with them, he will once more reveal his royal splendor in the land.
3 tn The psalmist probably uses the perfect verbal forms in v. 10 in a dramatic or rhetorical manner, describing what he anticipates as if it were already occurring or had already occurred.
4 sn Deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss. The psalmist personifies these abstract qualities to emphasize that God’s loyal love and faithfulness will yield deliverance and peace for his people.
5 sn The psalmist already sees undeniable signs of God’s faithfulness and expects deliverance to arrive soon.
6 tn Heb “what is good.”
7 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.
