Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Truth will spring up from the earth, and justice looked forth from the heavens.
New American Standard Bible
And righteousness looks down from heaven.
King James Version
Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
Holman Bible
and righteousness will look down from heaven.
International Standard Version
Truth sprouts up from the ground, while righteousness looks down from the sky.
A Conservative Version
Truth springs out of the earth, and righteousness has looked down from heaven.
American Standard Version
Truth springeth out of the earth; And righteousness hath looked down from heaven.
Amplified
Truth springs from the earth,
And righteousness looks down from heaven.
Bible in Basic English
Faith comes up from the earth like a plant; righteousness is looking down from heaven.
Darby Translation
Truth shall spring out of the earth, and righteousness shall look down from the heavens.
King James 2000
Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Faithfulness will sprout from [the] ground, and righteousness will look down from heaven.
Modern King James verseion
Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from Heaven.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Truth shall flourish out of the earth, and righteousness hath looked down from heaven.
NET Bible
Faithfulness grows from the ground, and deliverance looks down from the sky.
New Heart English Bible
Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven.
The Emphasized Bible
Faithfulness, out of the earth, doth spring forth, And, righteousness, out of the heavens, hath looked down.
Webster
Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
World English Bible
Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven.
Youngs Literal Translation
Truth from the earth springeth up, And righteousness from heaven looketh out,
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 85:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Restoration Of Favor
10 Mercy and truth met together; justice and peace kissed. 11 Truth will spring up from the earth, and justice looked forth from the heavens. 12 Also Jehovah will give good, and our land shall give her produce.
Cross References
Isaiah 45:8
Drop, ye heavens, from above, and the clouds shall shake out justice: the earth shall open, and they shall bring forth salvation, and justice shall spring up together; I Jehovah created it
Isaiah 4:2
In that day shall the springing up of Jehovah be for beauty and for glory, and the fruit of the earth for majesty and for ornament, for the escaping of Israel.
Isaiah 42:21
Jehovah was pleased for sake of his justice; he will magnify the law and make glorious.
Isaiah 53:2
He shall come up as a sucking child before him, and as a root out of a land of dryness: no form to him and no decoration; and we shall see him, and no appearance and we shall desire him.
Matthew 3:17
And behold a voice from the heavens, saying, This is my dearly beloved Son, in whom I was contented.
Matthew 17:5
He yet speaking, behold, a shining cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly beloved Son, in whom I was contented; hear ye him.
Luke 2:14
Glory to God in the highest ones, and upon earth peace, benevolence in men.
John 14:6
Jesus says to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one comes to the Father, except by me.
2 Corinthians 5:21
For him not knowing sin, he made sin for us; that we might be the justice of God in him.
Ephesians 1:6
To the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he rendered us acceptable in the beloved.
1 John 5:20-21
And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding, and we know him true, and we are in him true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.