Word for word from Exodus 34:6. With his proud and merciless enemies he contrasts the revealed character of God, as the ground of the prayer which follows. Though he may have deserved punishment, God cannot surely abandon him to them.
longsuffering Or, slow to anger (R.V.).
Verse Psalms 86:15. _BUT THOU, O LORD_] What a wonderful character of God is given in this verse! אדני _Adonai_, the Director, Judge, and Support; - but instead of אדני _Adonai, thirty-four_ of _Kenn...
BUT THOU, O LORD, ART A GOD FULL OF COMPASSION ... - See the notes at Psalms 86:5. The words rendered “long-suffering” mean that there was and would be delay in his anger; that it was not soon excited...
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...
GOD. Hebrew El. App-4. FULL OF COMPASSION, &C. Compare Exodus 34:6....
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...
But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. BUT THOU, O LORD, ART A GOD FULL OF COMPASSION, AND GRACIOUS, LONG-SUFFERING, AND PLEN...
86:15 goodness (f-16) Or 'loving-kindness,' _ chesed_ , as in vers. 5,13, and Psalms 103:8 . see Exodus 34:6 ....
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...
See Exodus 34:6....
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...
וְ אַתָּ֣ה אֲ֭דֹנָי אֵל ־רַח֣וּם וְ חַנּ֑וּן
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...
Though the expressions be here somewhat varied from those in the fifth verse, yet the meaning is the same. And we find the blessed portion to which they refer, Exodus 34:6, and it is repeatedly used i...
15._And thou, O Lord! art God, merciful, ready to forgive. _By immediately passing on to the celebration of these divine attributes, he would intimate, that we have adequate strength and protection ag...
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...
BUT THOU, O LORD, ART A GOD FULL OF COMPASSION,.... Or merciful t, in the most affectionate and tender manner, as a parent to its child, or particularly as a mother to the son of her womb; and is rich...
_But thou, O Lord, [art] a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth._ Ver. 15. _But thou, O Lord, art a God full, &c._] These are part of those thirteen a...
_O God, the proud are risen against me_ Behold, O God, a new opportunity to glorify that mercy, for ambitious men have risen up against me in open rebellion, and have not only plotted against me, but...
But Thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, as contrasted with the cruelty, insolence, and violence of the enemies, AND GRACIOUS, LONG SUFFERING, AND PLENTEOUS IN MERCY AND TRUTH, as He Himself ha...
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...
8-17 Our God alone possesses almighty power and infinite love. Christ is the way and the truth. And the believing soul will be more desirous to be taught the way and the truth. And the believing soul...
To wit, to thy people, and to me in particular; and therefore thou wilt forget and forgive my manifold sins, for which thou mightest justly reject me, and make me to know thy breach of promise; and th...
Psalms 86:15 Lord H136 God H410 compassion H7349 gracious H2587 Longsuffering H750 H639 abundant H7227 mercy H2617 trut
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
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 86:14 The last section of the psalm explains the source of the trouble: INSOLENT MEN and A BAND OF RUTHLESS MEN. These people DO NOT SET YOU BEFORE THEM (that
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 1:7; Ephesians 2:4; Exodus 31:6; Exodus 31:7; Joel 2:13;...