Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 85:11

"Truth springeth out of the earth; And righteousness hath looked down from heaven." — Psalms 85:11 (ASV)

Truth, or “faithfulness,” is here depicted as springing out of the earth, because the renewal of fertility has re-established the conviction of the faithfulness of Jehovah towards His people, which had been shaken.

Look down. —Used of bending forwards as from a window or battlement (Song of Solomon 6:10).

This “righteousness” (here in direct parallelism with faithfulness) had, as it were, been hidden like the sun behind a cloud, but now is seen showing its benign face once more in the skies.