Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Psalms 86:4
Verse Psalms 86:4. Rejoice the soul of thy servant] I want spiritual blessings; I want such consolations as thou dost impart to them that love thee; I present that soul to thee which I wish thee to console.
Verse Psalms 86:4. Rejoice the soul of thy servant] I want spiritual blessings; I want such consolations as thou dost impart to them that love thee; I present that soul to thee which I wish thee to console.
REJOICE THE SOUL OF THY SERVANT - Cause me to rejoice; to wit, by thy gracious interposition, and by delivering me from danger and death. FOR UNTO THEE, O LORD, DO I LIFT UP MY SOUL - Compare the note...
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...
_Rejoice_&c. Cp. Psalms 90:15. _for unto thee_&c. From Psalms 25:1. God alone is the object of his desires, his aspirations, his prayers. Cp. Psalms 143:8;...
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...
Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. REJOICE THE SOUL OF THY SERVANT: FOR UNTO THEE, O LORD, DO I LIFT UP MY SOUL - quoted from Psalms 25:1. The small print...
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 Psalms 25:1....
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...
שַׂ֭מֵּחַ נֶ֣פֶשׁ עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ כִּ֥י אֵלֶ֥יךָ אֲ֝דֹנָ֗י...
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...
Rahab. Egypt, &c. To this Sion, which is the Church of God, many shall resort from all nations. (Challoner) --- Christ gives his apostles command to preach to all, Matthew xxviii., and Luke xxiv. 27....
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...
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...
REJOICE THE SOUL OF THY SERVANT,.... With the discoveries of love, of pardoning grace, and mercy, before made sad with sin or sufferings; and with the light of God's countenance, before troubled with...
Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. Ver. 4. _Rejoice the soul of thy servant_] True and solid joy entereth the soul by the door of fervent prayer. Pray that...
_Rejoice the soul of thy servant_ It is God only that can put gladness into the heart, and make the soul rejoice; and it is the privilege of his servants to have _joy_, as well as _peace, in believing...
Rejoice the soul of Thy servant, filling it with happy exultation; FOR UNTO THEE, O LORD, DO I LIFT UP MY SOUL, raising it to the All-powerful in importunate and confident pleading. The reason for thi...
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...
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...
The expression notes fervent desire joined with hope or expectation, as appears by comparing DEUTERONOMY 24:15 JEREMIAH 22:27....
Psalms 86:4 Rejoice H8055 (H8761) soul H5315 servant H5650 Lord H136 up H5375 (H8799) soul H5315 Rejoice
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...
_Unto Thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul._ SOUL ELEVATION The soul’s true elevation is a progress-- I. Godward. “Unto Thee.” It does not really rise as it moves towards worldly wealth, position, in...
_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...
Isaiah 61:3; Isaiah 65:18; Isaiah 66:13; Isaiah 66:14; Psalms 143:8;...