Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
God's people returned from Babylon and now remind Him of that deliverance as the ground of their plea: finish what you have begun. Their exile was the working out of sin, and their restoration proves that sin forgiven. They trust the same God who brought them home will complete His grace toward them.
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Commenting on Psalm 85:1-13
Truth shall spring out of the earth. Promises which lie unfulfilled, like buried seeds, shall spring up and yield harvests of joy; and men renewed by grace shall learn to be true to one another and their God, and abhor the falsehood which they loved before.
We have here an answer to the prayers and expostulations in the foregoing verses. I. In general, it is an answer of peace. This the psalmist is soon aware of (Psa 85:8), for he stands upon his watch-tower to hear what God will say unto him, as the prophet, Hab 2:1, Hab 2:2. I will hear what God the Lord will speak. This intimates, 1.
Commenting on Psalm 85:8-13