Psalm 85:11 {84:12}
Good News Translation
Human loyalty will reach up from the earth, and God's righteousness will look down from heaven.

New Revised Standard Version
Faithfulness will spring up from the ground, and righteousness will look down from the sky.

Contemporary English Version
Loyalty will sprout from the ground; justice will look down from the sky above.

New American Bible
Truth will spring from the earth; justice will look down from heaven.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Truth is sprung out of the earth: and justice hath looked down from heaven.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Truth is sprung out of the earth: and justice hath looked down from heaven.

truth

Isaiah 4:2 In that day the bud of the Lord shall be in magnificence and glory, and the fruit of the earth shall be high, and a great joy to them that shall have escaped of Israel.

Isaiah 45:8 Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the just: let the earth be opened, and bud forth a saviour: and let justice spring up together: I the Lord have created him.

Isaiah 53:2 And he shall grow up as a tender plant before him, and as a root out of a thirsty ground: there is no beauty in him, nor comeliness: and we have seen him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be desirous of him:

John 14:6 Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me.

1 John 5:20,21 And we know that the Son of God is come. And he hath given us understanding that we may know the true God and may be in his true Son. This is the true God and life eternal. . . .

righteousness

Isaiah 42:21 And the Lord was willing to sanctify him, and to magnify the law, and exalt it.

Matthew 3:17 And behold a voice from heaven saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Matthew 17:5 And as he was yet speaking, behold a bright cloud overshadowed them. And lo a voice out of the cloud, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased: hear ye him.

Luke 2:14 Glory to God in the highest: and on earth peace to men of good will.

2 Corinthians 5:21 Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin for us: that we might be made the justice of God in him.

Ephesians 1:6 Unto the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he hath graced us, in his beloved son.

Context
You Showed Favor to Your Land
10Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed. 11Truth is sprung out of the earth: and justice hath looked down from heaven.12For the Lord will give goodness: and our earth shall yield her fruit.…
Cross References
Isaiah 45:8
Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the just: let the earth be opened, and bud forth a saviour: and let justice spring up together: I the Lord have created him.

Isaiah 61:11
For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth her seed to shoot forth: so shall the Lord God make justice to spring forth, and praise before all the nations.

Psalm 85:10
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