Psalms 85

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Psalm 85 is a prayer for revival from a people who have already been restored once. It begins by remembering that God showed favor to his land, brought Jacob back from captivity, forgave the people's sin, and turned from his anger. Then it asks him to do it again: restore us, will you be angry forever, will you not revive us so that your people may rejoice? The psalmist falls silent to listen, and hears God speak peace to his people. The psalm ends with one of the most beautiful pictures in the Psalter: loving devotion and faithfulness meet, righteousness and peace kiss, faithfulness springs from the ground and righteousness looks down from heaven, and the land yields its harvest.

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Psalm 85 is a prayer for people who have already been rescued once and need it again. It opens with memory: you showed favor to your land, LORD, you brought Jacob back from captivity, you forgave, you covered their sin, you set aside your anger. The great thing has happened. And yet the next verses are a plea, because the great thing did not feel finished. Restore us again. Will you be angry with us forever? Will you not revive us, so that your people can rejoice in you? Anyone who has lived through the letdown after a longed-for change knows this psalm from the inside; the exiles came home to a land that was theirs and found it poor, dry, and quiet. What the psalm does next is its genius. It stops talking. I will listen to what God the LORD will say, the psalmist writes, and what he hears is peace. Then the psalm paints the answer instead of arguing it. Loving devotion and faithfulness meet in the road. Righteousness and peace kiss. Faithfulness grows up out of the ground like a crop, and righteousness leans down from heaven to look at it. The LORD gives what is good, the land gives its harvest, and righteousness walks ahead of God to prepare the way for his feet. The prayer for revival ends not with revival but with a picture of what it looks like when God and his people are at peace, and that is enough to keep praying.

主要な箇所

Haggai 1:5-11 Ezra 3:11-13

Historical and literary context

The psalm is attributed to the sons of Korah, a guild of temple singers, and its opening most naturally refers to the return from Babylon after 538 BC, when the exiles came home to a land that was theirs again but poor, unwalled, and disappointing. Haggai and Zechariah describe the same mood: the great restoration had happened, and yet crops failed and God seemed distant. Verse 8, "I will listen to what God the LORD will say," reflects the practice of a priest or prophet delivering an oracle in the temple in answer to the people's lament. The Hebrew of verse 1 can mean "restored the fortunes of Jacob" as well as "restored Jacob from captivity," so some readers place the psalm before the exile.

How the chapter unfolds

Verses 1 to 3 recall what God has done: favor to the land, return from captivity, forgiveness, and the end of his anger. Verses 4 to 7 plead for the same mercy now, with the repeated "will You" questions and the request to revive and to show loving devotion. Verse 8 is the hinge, the psalmist listening for God's answer. Verses 9 to 13 give the answer as a vision: salvation near, glory dwelling in the land, the four virtues meeting and kissing, faithfulness from earth and righteousness from heaven, a good harvest, and righteousness walking ahead of God to prepare his way.

Why this chapter matters

Psalm 85 is the classic psalm of revival, and verse 6, "Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?", has been the text of countless revival sermons and hymns. Verse 10, righteousness and peace kissing, inspired the medieval allegory of the Four Daughters of God and appears in art and literature for centuries; Christians read it as a description of the cross, where God's justice and his mercy are reconciled. Verse 8 models the discipline of listening after praying. The psalm is read in Advent because of verse 9, "His salvation is near," and verse 13, righteousness preparing the way.

Interpretive tension to watch

The psalm lives in the gap between a restoration that has happened and a restoration that is still needed, and readers must decide whether verses 1 to 3 describe the return from exile, an earlier deliverance, or God's character in general. Verses 10 and 11 are a vision, not a report; the land yielding its increase in verse 12 is promised, not yet seen. The four virtues meeting has been read as a picture of what God is like, of what a righteous society is like, or of the atonement, and the psalm allows all three without settling on one.

この章のための質問

The psalm remembers a past restoration in order to ask for a new one. What has God done before that you can pray back to him now?
Verse 8 stops asking and starts listening. What would it look like to build listening into your prayers?
Righteousness and peace kiss in verse 10. Where in your experience do those two seem to pull apart, and how might they meet?

Study with context

Use this as a chapter guide, then press deeper into the text itself. The goal is to slow down observation, notice structure, and ask better questions before jumping to conclusions.

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1 (고라 자손의 시. 영장으로 한 노래) 여호와여, 주께서 주의 땅에 은혜를 베푸사 야곱의 포로 된 자로 돌아오게 하셨으며 2 주의 백성의 죄악을 사하시고 저희 모든 죄를 덮으셨나이다 (셀라) 3 주의 모든 분노를 거두시며 주의 진노를 돌이키셨나이다 4 우리 구원의 하나님이여, 우리를 돌이키시고 우리에게 향하신 주의 분노를 그치소서 5 주께서 우리에게 영원히 노하시며 대대에 발분하시겠나이까 6 우리를 다시 살리사 주의 백성으로 주를 기뻐하게 아니하시겠나이까 7 여호와여, 주의 인자하심을 우리에게 보이시며 주의 구원을 우리에게 주소서 8 내가 하나님 여호와의 하실 말씀을 들으리니 대저 그 백성 그 성도에게 화평을 말씀하실 것이라 저희는 다시 망령된 데로 돌아가지 말지로다 9 진실로 그의 구원이 그를 경외하는 자에게 가까우니 이에 영광이 우리 땅에 거하리이다 10 긍휼과 진리가 같이 만나고 의와 화평이 서로 입맞추었으며 11 진리는 땅에서 솟아나고 의는 하늘에서 하감하였도다 12 여호와께서 좋은 것을 주시리니 우리 땅이 그 산물을 내리로다 13 의가 주의 앞에 앞서 행하며 주의 종적으로 길을 삼으리로다

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