Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Psalms 86:9
Verse Psalms 86:9. All nations] Thy word shall be proclaimed among all the Gentiles: they shall receive thy testimony, and worship thee as the only true and living God.
Verse Psalms 86:9. All nations] Thy word shall be proclaimed among all the Gentiles: they shall receive thy testimony, and worship thee as the only true and living God.
ALL NATIONS WHOM THOU HAST MADE SHALL COME ... - In this verse the psalmist expresses his belief that the conviction which he entertained about the ability of God to save - about his being the only tr...
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...
SHALL GLORIFY. Compare Isaiah 66:23....
Renewed supplication for a hearing. The Psalmist is sure of an answer, for Jehovah is the only true God, Whom all nations will one day acknowledge....
Apparently a reminiscence of Psalms 22:27, combined possibly with Isaiah 24:15 (-glorify ye … the name of Jehovah") and other passages. But the verse is remarkable for the distinctness and fulness of...
ALL NATIONS, &C.— This, if applied to Hezekiah, may signify all the neighbouring nations. See 2 Chronicles 32:23. But it may also be considered as a prediction of the calling of the Gentiles under the...
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...
Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications. -From speaking of God's willingness, the Psalmist passes to God's omnipotent power to help. Verse 6. ATTEND TO THE VOI...
See Psalms 22:27....
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...
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...
For this wide prospect of Divine dominion see Psalms 22:31; Isaiah 43:7....
כָּל ־גֹּויִ֤ם ׀ אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשִׂ֗יתָ יָבֹ֤ואוּ ׀ וְ...
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...
All nations whom thou hast made shall come and (g) worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name. (g) This proves that David prayed in the Name of Christ the Messiah of whose kingdom he her...
Here is a sweet reference to the covenant of redemption in and by Christ; and I would fain persuade myself that Christ had an eye to it in what is here said. God the Father promised to give his Son th...
9_All nations which thou hast made shall come. _(485) If any would rather limit what is here stated to David’s present case, this view does not seem liable to any material objection. He, in fact, ofte...
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...
ALL NATIONS WHOM THOU HAST MADE,.... All nations, or the inhabitants of all nations, are made by the Lord, and of the blood of one man, Acts 17:26, and which as it shows the obligation of all men to c...
All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name. Ver. 9. _All nations whom thou hast made shall come, &c._] It were fit they should, Revelation...
_All nations whom thou hast made_ For, as thou hast made them, thou canst easily convince and convert them to thyself; _shall come and worship before thee_ Shall forsake their impotent idols, and shal...
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...
All nations whom Thou hast made shall come and worship before Thee, O Lord, the prophet, in this vision, seeing representatives of every people on earth bowing before Messiah's throne; AND SHALL GLORI...
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...
So true is that which I have now said of thee, PSALMS 86:8, that the time is coming when all the nations of the earth shall acknowledge it, and, forsaking their impotent idol, shall worship thee alone...
Psalms 86:9 nations H1471 made H6213 (H8804) come H935 (H8799) worship H7812 (H8691) before H6440 Lord...
Psalms 86:9 This Psalm is not usually numbered, but it might well be, amongst the penitential psalms. Its pensiveness is that of contrition. From the Divine attributes which it accentuates, and from i...
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...
_All nations whom Thou hast made shall come and worship before Thee, O Lord; and shall glorify Thy name._ THE GOLDEN AGE THAT IS COMING When all the nations fall down in practical worship before the...
_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 86:8 The psalm moves from THERE IS NONE LIKE YOU who is worthy of worship AMONG THE GODS (that is, the angels and other heavenly beings), to YOU ALONE ARE GOD. T
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 Peter 2:9; Ephesians 1:12; Isaiah 11:9; Isaiah 2:2; Isaiah 43:7;...