This seems to be a supplication for the positive blessings which result from God's pardon being theirs, and His favor to the Land and people declared, i.e., the owning this and acknowledging their blessing to be under it, and therefore looking for it. Conversion to blessing is consequent upon pardon and forgiveness—so always, not the contrary. The two first verses state the basis of the supplication—wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption. The last verses of the Psalm are remarkable. “Mercy and truth are met together"—not so now; the truth of God was accounted naught by them—in Jesus, the minister of the circumcision, therefore shown in justice as against them. Now they come in on sole mercy, forgiveness (eleethosi) and therein the truth of all the promises is fulfilled withal. They are “met together”—righteousness, the consistency of God with His own character, or the truth of that character, finds its development in peace with His people. Moreover "Truth springs out of the earth" not only in the conduct of His saints, but the power and witness of it in facts, so that " He that blesseth himself in the earth," etc. (Isa. 45:1616They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols. (Isaiah 45:16)) and righteousness looks with unclouded aspect from heaven—naught to hinder the flow of the consistency of God's character—what now found its unhindered vent upon earth. His righteousness could do so—it is exercised in Christ's reign—and the Lord consequently, as even unhindered, flows forth in blessing—gives that which is good, “every good and perfect gift." The Land yields her increase, and righteousness goes before and leads the path of Christ, who places and sets them in the way of His steps, guides them, not in searchings of the Spirit, but a plain and present cloudless path. It is present righteousness. It is a beautiful Psalm.
We find the captivity of Jacob brought back—“The iniquity of thy people forgiven." God is the God of their salvation; but the blessings, consequent on this, are not arrived at, but God is inquired of for them, “That the glory may dwell in our Land," not merely Israel. By these dealings, truth as to the promises of old, and mercy towards the objects of them, who deserved none, are met—these great elements of what God is—righteousness, which would have been against, and peace, for "He has made peace"—the favor and prosperity of God are fully united. As effect, truth, a new thing (guile was there) springs out of the earth—the return to blessing, peace-making blessing; and righteousness, either hid or punishing, can now show the glory of its face unclouded. The full blessing of the Lord shall take its way through the Land. These are the consequences, or what is destined to follow as the consummation of restoration.
In verse 10 we have the truth realized in God's character; in verse 11 between heaven and earth, between men and God; in verses 12, 13, consequent blessing upon earth.