Judaism
Psalms 85
Text
For the Leader. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
LORD, Thou hast been favourable unto Thy land, Thou hast turned the captivity of Jacob.
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of Thy people, Thou hast pardoned all their sin. Selah .
Thou hast withdrawn all Thy wrath; Thou hast turned from the fierceness of Thine anger.
Restore us, O God of our salvation, And cause Thine indignation toward us to cease.
Wilt Thou be angry with us for ever? Wilt Thou draw out Thine anger to all generations?
Wilt Thou not quicken us again, That Thy people may rejoice in Thee?
Show us Thy mercy, O LORD, And grant us Thy salvation.
I will hear what God the LORD will speak; For He will speak peace unto His people, and to His saints; But let them not turn back to folly.
Surely His salvation is nigh them that fear Him; That glory may dwell in our land.
Mercy and truth are met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Truth springeth out of the earth; And righteousness hath looked down from heaven.
Yea, the LORD will give that which is good; And our land shall yield her produce.
Righteousness shall go before Him, And shall make His footsteps a way.
Text: The Holy Scriptures, Jewish Publication Society (1917), public domain, via Sefaria.
✦ Connected Across Traditions
Divine Compassion & Mercy
Quran 1:1
“In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.”
Luke 6:36
“Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.”
Snp 1.8 (trans. Bhikkhu Sujato)
“Even as a mother would protect with her life her child, her only child, so too for all creatures unfold a boundless heart.”
Guru Granth Sahib, Ang 1
“ik oankaar sat naam: one Creator, whose Name is Truth, beyond fear and enmity.”
Good vs Evil / Light vs Darkness
Yasna 30:3
“Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action.”
John 1:5
“And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”
Dhammapada 2 (trans. Bhikkhu Sujato)
“Intention is the leader of things; intention is first, they’re made by intention. If with pure intent you speak or act, happiness follows you like a shadow that never leaves.”
Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 16 (trans. Edwin Arnold)
“The Doors of Hell Are threefold, whereby men to ruin pass, The door of Lust, the door of Wrath, the door Of Avarice. Let a man shun those three!”