Verse Psalms 86:3. _BE MERCIFUL UNTO ME_] I have no _merit_; I plead none, but trust in thee alone. _I CRY UNTO THEE DAILY._] My state deeply affects me; and I incessantly cry for thy salvation....
BE MERCIFUL UNTO ME, O LORD - It was mercy after all that he relied on, and not justice. It was not because he had any claim on the ground that he was “holy,” but all that he had and hoped for was to...
Psalms 86 A Prayer _ 1. The prayer of the poor and needy one (Psalms 86:1)_ 2. The praise of His Name (Psalms 86:10) This Psalm has for an inscription “A prayer of David.” We can hear in it the vo...
LXXXVI. THE PRAYER OF A GODLY MAN IN AFFLICTION. This Ps. is little more than a cento from the rest of the Psalter. PSALMS 86:1. The Psalmist prays for succour, pleading God's mercy and his own piet...
BE MERCIFUL. Show me favour, or Be gracious. LORD*. One of the 134 places where the _Sopherim_ say they changed Jehovah to Adonai. See App-32. DAILY. all the day....
Be gracious unto me, O Lord; For unto thee do I cry all the day long. See Psalms 57:1-2, and elsewhere (Psalms 3:4; Psalms 4:1; &c.)....
A series of petitions, each supported by the ground on which the Psalmist pleads for a hearing....
DISCOURSE: 644 A PRAYING SPIRIT EXEMPLIFIED Psalms 86:1. Bow down thine ear, O Lord! hear me; for I am poor and needy. Preserve my soul; for I am holy O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in...
PSALMS 86 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Prayer of a Tried and Faithful Servant of Jehovah. ANALYSIS The Psalmist prays to be Heard and Answered and for his Life to be Preserved because of his Need (Psalms 86:1...
This is a Psalm of general supplication for help in trouble, and breathes a devout spirit of gratitude and confidence towards God. Specially remarkable is the hope of Psalms 86:9 that God will be univ...
DAILY] RV 'all the day long.'...
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ BITS AND PIECES PSALMS 86 They said to Jesus, "Teach us to pray". He said, "Ask and you will receive. Look and you will find. Knock and it will open to you". (Fro...
חָנֵּ֥נִי אֲדֹנָ֑י כִּ֥י אֵלֶ֥יךָ אֶ֝קְרָ֗א כָּל...
Psalms 86:1 THIS psalm is little more than a mosaic of quotations and familiar phrases of petition. But it is none the less individual, nor is the psalmist less heavily burdened, or less truly beseech...
A PRAYER TO THE GOD OF MERCY Psalms 86:1 This psalm is largely composed of quotations. When the soul is in great need, it is not concerned with inventing new forms of address to God, but avails itsel...
This psalm is peculiar in many ways. Its first peculiarity is that the name of God which dominates is Adonahy, or Lord, which indicates absolute Lordship, and by the use of which the singer shows his...
Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I (c) cry unto thee daily. (c) Which was a fair token that he believed that God would deliver him....
Who, that recollects what is said of Christ in the days of his flesh, that he offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears, can fail to trace Jesus in these cries of the soul? Re...
_DAILY PRAYER_ ‘I cry unto Thee daily.’ Psalms 86:3 I. THIS IS THE ONLY PSALM IN THE THIRD BOOK ASCRIBED TO DAVID.—It sounds like his. There is a lyric beauty and pathos about it which are so chara...
3_Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah! _The Psalmist again betakes himself to the mercy of God. The word חנן, _chanan, _which I have rendered _have mercy, _is substantially the same as to _gratify, to do a...
Psalms 86. This psalm is the meek yet confiding and confident appeal of a soul conscious of its godly feelings towards Jehovah and looking to the results of relationship with Him. We have had Jehovah...
BE MERCIFUL UNTO ME, O LORD,.... In my distressed and miserable condition, being an object of mercy, pity, and compassion; this petition is used by Christ in Psalms 41:10 FOR I CRY UNTO THEE DAILY; o...
Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily. Ver. 3. _Be merciful unto me_] Lest any should, by the former words (I am holy), suspect him to be a merit monger, he beggeth mercy, with insta...
Be merciful unto me, O Lord, all claim of merit and worthiness being set aside by the psalmist; FOR I CRY UNTO THEE DAILY, pleading for Jehovah's grace all day long....
DAVID'S PRAYER IN THE MIDST OF PERSECUTION. A prayer of David, the only hymn by the great king and prophet which was included by the collectors in this book of the psalter. We find here the same term...
DAILY: Or, all the day...
1-7 Our poverty and wretchedness, when felt, powerfully plead in our behalf at the throne of grace. The best self-preservation is to commit ourselves to God's keeping. I am one whom thou favourest, h...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Psalms 86:3 merciful H2603 (H8798) Lord H136 cry H7121 (H8799) day H3117 Be merciful - Psalms 56:1
Psalms 86:1 The fulness and variety of these petitions deserve careful consideration. Notice: I. The invocations. Five times in these verses of the text does the Psalmist invoke God, and that by thr...
CONTENTS: The malice of enemies deplored. God's goodness pleaded in prayer for mercy. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The best self preservation is to commit ourselves to God's keeping and by fa...
Title. _A prayer of David._ All antiquity, and all the versions, support this title. Psalms 86:2. _I am holy,_ I have not done any wrong to Saul, nor to Absalom, nor indeed to any of the families whi...
_Bow down Thine ear, O Lord, hear me: for I am poor and needy._ MAN AND THE GREAT GOD I. Man in a variety of aspects. 1. What every man is. “Poor and needy.” Morally this is the case with every man...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 86:1. This is an individual lament in a situation in which “a band of insolent men seek my life” (v. Psalms 86:14). The psalm confesses tha
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_A Prayer of David_.” Although this Psalm is not placed with the great body of David’s Psalms (1–70), there is no sufficient ground for disputing his authorship of it....
EXPOSITION THIS is the prayer of an afflicted and humble soul in a time of persecution (Psalms 86:14), intermixed with outbursts of praise (Psalms 86:5, Psalms 86:8,...
Psa 86:1-17 we have another psalm of David. David said, Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy. Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that is trusting...
Ephesians 6:18; Luke 11:8; Luke 18:7; Luke 2:37; Psalms 25:5;...