Thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell— Thou hast delivered my life from the grave beneath. Green. "Thou hast often snatched me from extreme dangers, (See 1 Samuel 23 : &c.) which, like an abyss and bottomless pit, were ready to swallow me up."
Verse Psalms 86:13. _THOU HAST DELIVERED MY SOUL FROM THE LOWEST HELL._] This must mean more than the _grave_; a _hell below hell_-a place of perdition for the soul, as the grave is a place of corrupt...
FOR GREAT IS THY MERCY TOWARD ME - In respect to me; or, Thou hast manifested great mercy to me; to wit, in past times. He makes use of this now as an argument or reason why God should interpose again...
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...
THE LOWEST HELL. _Sheol_ beneath. HELL. Hebrew Sheol. App-35. Not the language of "Semitic heathenism", but the inspired revelation of _Divine eschatology._...
Cp. Psalms 57:9-10; Psalms 9:1; Psalms 50:15; Psalms 50:23. _with all my heart_ R.V. with my whole heart; when the prayer of...
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...
Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name. -The Psalmist's prayer and praise because of the mercy of God in having delivered his soul from the lowest hell,...
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...
THE LOWEST HELL] RM 'Sheol beneath,' the state of the dead: see Psalms 56:13....
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...
Comp. Psalms 56:13; Psalms 57:9....
LOWEST HELL. — Literally, _sheôl, beneath,_ a fuller expression for the usual _sheôl, underworld._ (See Note, Psalms 6:5.) There is no comparison implied as in the Authorised Version. It is evident fr...
כִּֽי ־חַ֭סְדְּךָ גָּדֹ֣ול עָלָ֑י וְ הִצַּ֥לְתָּ...
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...
For great [is] thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from (i) the lowest hell. (i) That is, from most great danger of death: out of which none but the almighty hand of God could delive...
This is evidently a direct reference to Christ. Compare Psalms 16:10, with Acts 13:34; Acts 13:34....
In the 13th verse, he sets forth the reason of this, which is, because, in delivering him, God had given a singular and remarkable proof of his mercy. To place in a stronger light the greatness of thi...
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...
FOR GREAT IS THY MERCY TOWARD ME,.... Both in things temporal and spiritual; an instance of which follows: AND THOU HAST DELIVERED MY SOUL FROM THE LOWEST HELL; from a very distressed and disconsolat...
For great [is] thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell. Ver. 13. _Thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell_] That is, from deadly and desperate dangers. Some...
_I will praise thee, O Lord_, &c. Not only as _the Lord_, but as _my God._ And I will do it _with all my heart_ That is, with readiness, cheerfulness, and fervency, and with a sincere regard to thy ho...
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...
For great is Thy mercy, God's unmerited favor, TOWARD ME, AND THOU HAST DELIVERED MY SOUL FROM THE LOWEST HELL, from the lowest regions of the realm of death, said of the extremely perilous situation...
HELL: Or, grave...
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...
MY SOUL; my person or life, as in the next verse. FROM THE LOWEST HELL; either, 1. From hell properly so called. Or rather, 2. From extreme and desperate dangers and miseries, by comparing this with...
Psalms 86:13 great H1419 mercy H2617 delivered H5337 (H8689) soul H5315 depths H8482 Sheol H7585 great -...
HELL Hebrew, "Sheol," (_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). _...
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...
_Thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell _ SAVED FROM THE DEPTHS A plan has lately been proposed and successfully employed for raising the cargoes of sunken vessels. A huge electro-magnet,...
_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...
1 Thessalonians 1:10; Isaiah 38:17; Job 33:18; Job 33:22; Job 33:24;...
Hell — From extreme dangers and miseries....