“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 again to folly.”
A prophetic voice emerges: "Let me hear what God the LORD will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his faithful, to those who turn their hearts to him." The psalm shifts to attestation that God's word—directed toward the covenant people and faithful ones—will be a word of peace. The condition "to those who turn their hearts to him" suggests that peace requires human reorientation toward God.
Church Fathers on Psalms 85:8
1. ...Its title is, “A Psalm for the end, to the sons of Core.” Let us understand no other end than that of which the Apostle speaks: for, “Christ is the end of the law.” Romans 10:4 Therefore when at the head of the title of the Psalm he placed the words, “for the end,” he directed our heart to Christ. If we fix our gaze on Him, we shall not stray: for He is Himself the Truth unto which we are eager to arrive, and He Himself the Way John 14:6 by which we run.... 2. The…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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