What Does Psalm 85:7 Mean in the King James?

Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.

Psalm 85:7 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

The prayer asks for God’s faithful love to become visible in the very act of bringing you out.

THE MEANING

You can name your need plainly, asking for faithful love to meet you and deliverance to be given. The verse holds both together: love is shown, and you are brought out.

THE ROOT

חֶסֶד

chesed

GROWS FROM

ח־ס־ד

To act with faithful kindness and loyal care.

Beneath “mercy” is ⁨חֶסֶד⁩ (chesed, faithful love): care that holds through the need, not only a passing feeling of pity. The prayer asks for that faithful love to be shown, to become visible here.

ALSO GROWS

hasad: To act with kindness or faithful care.

חָסַד

It gives the prayer’s “shew us” a lived quality: faithful love is something enacted and made visible.

chasid: A faithful or loyal one.

חָסִיד

This branch shows the relational shape of chesed: faithful love is known through loyalty.

יְשׁוּעָה

yeshuah

GROWS FROM

י־שׁ־ע

To deliver, bringing someone out from distress into safety and room.

“Salvation” here is ⁨יְשׁוּעָה⁩ (yeshuah, deliverance), from the same root as ⁨יָשַׁע⁩ (yasha, to deliver). The word carries movement out of constriction: deliverance is granted, received, and made real.

ALSO GROWS

yasha: To deliver or bring out.

יָשַׁע

The verb behind yeshuah makes clear that deliverance is an act of being brought out.

moshia: Deliverer; one who brings out.

מוֹשִׁיעַ

This branch places the focus on the one who gives the deliverance the prayer asks to receive.

THE PATTERN

Deliverance becomes visible through faithful care that turns toward people in need.

And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

Exodus 34:6 · KJVThe verse names God’s abundant goodness and truth as the character from which faithful care is shown.

Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;

Psalm 106:4 · KJVThe speaker asks for God’s favor to meet them personally and for deliverance to come near.

Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,

Luke 1:78 · KJVGod’s compassion visits people and becomes visible as light arriving in darkness.

THE THREAD

Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.

Psalm 118:25 · KJV

“Save now” is ⁨הוֹשִׁיעָה⁩ (hoshia, deliver), from the root ⁨י־שׁ־ע⁩ (yasha, to deliver), the same root as ⁨יְשׁוּעָה⁩ (yeshuah, deliverance) in this verse. Psalm 85 asks for deliverance to be granted; Psalm 118 makes the same cry immediate.

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