Psalm 85:10 {84:11}
Good News Translation
Love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace will embrace.

New Revised Standard Version
Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace will kiss each other.

Contemporary English Version
Love and loyalty will come together; goodness and peace will unite.

New American Bible
Love and truth will meet; justice and peace will kiss.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed.

mercy

Psalm 89:14 Justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face:

Psalm 100:5 For the Lord is sweet, his mercy endureth for ever, and his truth to generation and generation.

Exodus 34:6,7 And when he passed before him, he said: O the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, patient and of much compassion, and true, . . .

Micah 7:20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, the mercy to Abraham: which thou hast sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

Luke 1:54,55 He hath received Israel his servant, being mindful of his mercy. . . .

John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

righteousness

Psalm 72:3 Let the mountains receive peace for the people: and the hills justice.

Isaiah 32:16-18 An judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and justice shall sit in charmel. . . .

Isaiah 45:24 For every knee shall be bowed to me, and every tongue shall swear.

Jeremiah 23:5,6 Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will raise up to David a just branch: and a king shall reign, and shall be wise: and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. . . .

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

Romans 3:25,26 Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins, . . .

Romans 5:1,21 Being justified therefore by faith, let us have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ: . . .

Hebrews 7:2 To whom also Abraham divided the tithes of all: who first indeed by interpretation is king of justice: and then also king of Salem, that is, king of peace:

Context
You Showed Favor to Your Land
9Surely his salvation is near to them that fear him : that glory may dwell in our 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.…
Cross References
Psalm 25:10
All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth, to them that seek after his covenant and his testimonies.

Psalm 72:3
Let the mountains receive peace for the people: and the hills justice.

Psalm 89:14
Justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face:

Proverbs 3:3
And thou shalt find grace, and good understanding before God and men.

Isaiah 32:17
And the work of justice shall be peace, and the service of justice quietness, and security for ever.

Psalm 85:9
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