Psalms 85 Commentary: Restoration, Revival, and Peace
Psalms 85 remembers God’s past restoration and asks for renewed salvation, peace, righteousness, and joy among his people.
Psalms 85 remembers God’s past restoration and asks for renewed salvation, peace, righteousness, and joy among his people.
Psalms 89 praises God’s covenant with David, then laments the anointed king’s humiliation and pleads for remembered mercy.
Psalms 90 teaches mortal people to trust the eternal God, seek wisdom, receive mercy, and ask for established work.
Psalms 88 gives believers words for unrelieved sorrow, persistent prayer, isolation, and hope directed to the God of salvation.
Psalms 87 celebrates Zion as God’s beloved city and shows the nations counted as born there by God’s grace.
Psalms 86 shows David asking for mercy, undivided worship, deliverance from proud enemies, and a sign of God’s goodness.
Psalms 84 celebrates longing for God’s house, strength for pilgrimage, prayer for the anointed, and blessing for trust.
Psalms 83 records Asaph’s prayer for God to silence a hostile coalition, defend Israel, and reveal himself as Most High.
Psalms 82 reveals God judging corrupt rulers, defending the weak, and claiming all nations as his inheritance.
Psalms 81 calls Israel to festival praise, remembers deliverance from Egypt, warns against idols, and promises full provision from God.
Psalms 80 pleads for God to restore his vine, shine his face, and save his people from enemies.
Psalms 79 shows Asaph praying over Jerusalem’s ruin, asking God for mercy, forgiveness, justice, and restored praise.
Psalms 78 teaches Israel to remember God’s works, confess rebellion, trust mercy, and receive David’s shepherding role.
Psalms 77 traces Asaph’s troubled prayer from sleepless grief to renewed faith through remembering God’s mighty works and shepherd care.
Psalms 76 reveals God’s known name, his defense of Zion, his judgment on war, and his rule over kings.
Psalms 75 gives thanks to God, warns the arrogant, and declares that judgment, exaltation, and righteous vindication belong to him.
Psalms 74 laments the ruined sanctuary, pleads for God’s covenant, and remembers his power over creation and enemies.
Psalms 73 follows Asaph from envy of the wicked to sanctuary clarity, repentance, and joy in God as his portion.
Psalms 72 prays for the righteous king whose rule brings justice, peace, rescue for the needy, and blessing for all nations.
Psalms 71 teaches lifelong trust in God through old age, enemy pressure, renewed hope, and praise for his righteousness.
Psalms 70 teaches urgent prayer for rescue, shame for destroyers, gladness for seekers, and confidence in God’s timely help.
Psalms 69 shows David overwhelmed by enemies, reproach, and pain while he seeks mercy, judgment, praise, and Zion’s restoration.
Psalms 68 celebrates God arising against enemies, defending the weak, leading his people, and receiving worldwide praise.
Psalms 67 shows God blessing his people so his way, salvation, righteous rule, and praise reach all the nations.
Psalms 66 calls all the earth to praise God, remember deliverance, endure testing, fulfill vows, and testify to answered prayer.
Psalms 65 celebrates God’s atonement, answered prayer, worldwide power, and generous care over the earth’s fruitful harvest.
Psalms 64 teaches believers to bring hidden hostility, deadly words, and secret plots before God’s just and wise rule.
Psalms 63 follows David in the desert, showing desire for God, satisfied praise, steadfast trust, and royal vindication.
Psalms 62 teaches quiet trust in God alone, warning against unstable people, oppression, robbery, riches, and false security.
Psalms 61 shows David crying from weakness, seeking higher refuge, and praying for the king’s preservation before God.
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