Passage Research
Psalm 85 — Sermon Preparation
A Sons of Korah psalm remembering God's past forgiveness and praying for renewal, envisioning love and truth meeting in a restored land. Below is a research summary for Psalm 85, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
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- classic sermon excerpts
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- preachers & commentators
Psalm 85 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שׁוּב | shûwb | H7725 | 5 | turn, return |
| יֶשַׁע | yeshaʻ | H3468 | 3 | liberty, deliverance |
| צֶדֶק | tsedeq | H6664 | 3 | right, equity |
| אֶמֶת | ʼemeth | H571 | 2 | stability, certainty |
| עַם | ʻam | H5971 | 3 | people, tribe |
| דּוֹר | dôwr | H1755 | 2 | revolution, age |
| נָתַן | nâthan | H5414 | 3 | give, put |
How preachers through history handled this text
8 public-domain excerpts on Psalm 85, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Interpreters are generally of the opinion that this psalm was penned after the return of the Jews out of their captivity in Babylon, when they still remained under some tokens of God's displeasure, which they here pray for the removal of. And nothing appears to the contrary, but that it might be penned then, as well as Ps. cxxxvii. They are the public interests that lie near the psalmist's heart here, and the psalm is penned for the great congregation. The church was here in a deluge; above were clouds, below were waves; …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 3 (Job to Song of Solomon), on Psalm 85:1–30 (Public Domain)
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