John Wesley · 1426 of 2131
Commentary on Chapter 85
1. Captivity - The captives.
4. Turn us - Restore us to our former tranquillity, and free us from the troubles which we yet groan under.
6. Revive us - Give us a second reviving in bringing home the rest of our brethren, and in restraining our enemies.
8. Will hear - Diligently observe. Will speak - What answer God will give to my prayers. Peace - He will give an answer of peace. - Not to all that are called God's people, but only to those who are truly such.
9. His salvation - That compleat salvation for which all the Israel of God wait; even the by the Messiah; of which not only Christian, but even Jewish writers understand this place; and to which the following passages properly belong. And the psalmist might well say this salvation was , because the seventy weeks determined by Daniel were begun. Glory - The glorious , and the God of glory himself, even Christ, who is the brightness of his father's glory.
10. Kissed - That great work of by Christ, shall clearly manifest God's mercy in his people Israel, and in the of the ; his truth in fulfilling that great promise of sending his son, his in punishing sin, on his son, and in conferring upon guilty and lost creatures; and his peace or to sinners, and that peace of conscience which attends upon it.
11. Truth - Truth among men. - And God's justice shall be satisfied: he shall look down upon sinful men with a smiling countenance.
13. Before him - As his harbinger. He shall fulfil all , he shall satisfy the of God, and shall advance and among men. Set us - Shall cause us to walk in those righteous ways wherein he walketh.