Revive Us Again
The LORD will indeed provide what is good, and our land will yield its increase. Psalm 85:12 · Berean Standard Bible
The LORD will give what is genuinely good, and as a result the land itself will become fruitful and productive again.
This moves from the poetic and spiritual into the very practical. Restoration means real crops, real provision, real healing of the land that was devastated by exile and war. God's goodness isn't just internal; it transforms circumstances and economics and the physical world.
The psalmist, describing the concrete results of God's favor.
God's concern for the physical world and human flourishing appears from Genesis onward. Redemption isn't escape from the material world but its healing — something reinforced in the resurrection and the promise of new creation.
God will provide what is good, and the land itself will be productive and flourishing—material blessing accompanying spiritual restoration.
The Hebrew ṭôb (good/goodness) carries connotations of abundance, beauty, and flourishing—not merely ethical goodness but comprehensive well-being. The phrase 'our land will yield its increase' (tittēn yebûlāh) invokes the covenant promise tradition from Deuteronomy wherein obedience to God results in agricultural fertility and material security. This grounds spiritual restoration in concrete, observable blessings that validate God's favor.
The psalmist, continuing to articulate the comprehensive blessings that restoration entails.
This connects to the covenantal promise tradition established with Abraham and renewed at Sinai: obedience and proper worship result in material blessing. It also anticipates Christian theology's affirmation that God cares for human material welfare, not merely spiritual states.
10Loving devotion and faithfulness have joined together; righteousness and peace have kissed.
11Faithfulness sprouts from the earth, and righteousness looks down from heaven.
12The LORD will indeed provide what is good, and our land will yield its increase.
13Righteousness will go before Him to prepare the way for His steps.
Read all of Psalm 85 — Love and faithfulness meet. Righteousness and peace kiss. A psalm that imagines a future so good it reads like a dream.
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