Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 86:2
Preserve my soul; for I [am] (b) holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.
(b) I am not an enemy to them, but I pity them even though they are cruel to me.
Preserve my soul; for I [am] (b) holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.
(b) I am not an enemy to them, but I pity them even though they are cruel to me.
Verse Psalms 86:2. _PRESERVE MY SOUL_] Keep it as in a strong place. _FOR I_ AM _HOLY_] כי חשיד אני _ki chasid ani_, for I am merciful. The spirit of this prayer is, "The mercy I to others show, Th...
PRESERVE MY SOUL - Preserve, or keep, my life; for so the word rendered soul means in this place, as it does commonly in the Scriptures. FOR I AM HOLY - Margin, “One whom thou favorest.” The Hebrew wo...
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...
SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. HOLY. one whom Thou favourest. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. TRUSTETH. confideth. Hebrew. _batah,_ App-69....
A series of petitions, each supported by the ground on which the Psalmist pleads for a hearing....
_Preserve my soul_ = Psalms 25:20. _for I_am _holy_ R.V. godly fails to bring out the connexion of the word with _chesed_, -lovingkindness" (Psalms 86:5; Psalms 86:13;...
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...
FOR I AM HOLY— _For I am thy favoured one._ Mudge. _For I am merciful._ Green; which seems a very proper translation; and is as if the Psalmist had said, "Shew that mercy to me which I am so ready and...
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...
Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee. PRESERVE MY SOUL, FOR I AM HOLY - (cf. Psalms 86:16, end.) "Holy" - rather, 'pious' [ chaaciyd (H2623). So th...
86:2 godly; (c-7) Or 'pious,' 'holy,' _ chasid_ , one who is the object of God's loving-kindness ( _ chesed_ ). see ver. 13 and Psalms 85:7 ,Psalms 85:10 , and Note to Psalms 4:3 ; and, by way of con...
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...
PRESERVE MY SOUL, etc.] see Psalms 25:20. HOLY] RV 'godly'; rather, 'one whom thou favourest.'...
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 I AM HOLY. — Rather, in order to reproduce the feeling, _for I am one of the chosen ones; one of Thy saints, &c._ He pleads the covenant relation as a claim to the blessing. (See, on _chasid,_ Not...
שָֽׁמְרָ֣ה נַפְשִׁי֮ כִּֽי ־חָסִ֪יד אָ֥נִי הֹושַׁ֣ע...
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...
_Jacob. Jerusalem belonged to some of his children. Hence the psalmist clearly speaks of something better, even of the Church of Christ, (Berthier) which God has chosen for his spouse, having abandone...
I pause at the close of these verses, though thereby a chasm is made in the prayer, to call the Reader's attention to what this petitioner said in it, where the great argument made use of is, that he...
2._Preserve my soul, for I am meek. _Here the Psalmist adduces two other arguments by which to stir up God to grant him succor, — his own gentleness towards his neighbors, and the trust which he repos...
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...
PRESERVE MY SOUL,.... Or life, which Saul sought after; and this prayer was heard: David was often remarkably preserved by the Lord from his attempts upon him; and so was the soul or life of Christ pr...
Preserve my soul; for I [am] holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee. Ver. 2. _Preserve my soul, for I am holy_] Or, a favourite, a saint, merciful, such a one as upon whose heart...
_Preserve my soul, for I am holy_ Sanctified in some measure by thy grace, and sincerely devoted to thy service. Hebrew, אני חסיד, _ani chasid, I am good, merciful_, or _pious._ Show that mercy to me...
Preserve my soul, in the midst of persecution and suffering; FOR I AM HOLY, a saint of God, under His favor. O THOU, MY GOD, SAVE THY SERVANT THAT TRUSTETH IN THEE, clinging to Jehovah with the full c...
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...
HOLY: Or, one whom thou favourest...
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...
I AM HOLY; sanctified in some measure by thy grace, and sincerely devoted to thy service. This David speaks, not in a way of vain ostentation, but partly as a powerful argument to move God to hear his...
Psalms 86:2 Preserve H8104 (H8798) life H5315 holy H2623 God H430 Save H3467 (H8685) servant H5650 trusts...
TRUSTETH (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...
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...
1 Peter 5:3; 1 Samuel 2:9; Deuteronomy 7:7; Deuteronomy 7:8; Ephesi
Holy — Sincerely devoted to thy service....