Hawker's Poor man's commentary
Psalms 86:11,12
While we look to Christ as our glorious Head, let us see our personal interest in him, and, by virtue of our union with him, take up this language. John 14:26.
While we look to Christ as our glorious Head, let us see our personal interest in him, and, by virtue of our union with him, take up this language. John 14:26.
Verse Psalms 86:11. _TEACH ME THY WAY_] Instruct me in the steps I should take; for without thy teaching I must go astray. _UNITE MY HEART_] יחד לבבי _yached lebabi, join_ all the purposes, resoluti...
TEACH ME THY WAY, O LORD - That is, in the present emergency. Show me what thou wouldst have me to do that I may obtain thy favor, and thy gracious help. I WILL WALK IN THY TRUTH - I will live and ac...
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...
UNITE MY HEART. Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulg, read "Let my heart rejoice". FEAR. revere. NAME. See note on Psalms 20:1....
_Teach me thy way, O Lord_ Word for word from Psalms 27:11. _I will walk in thy truth_ When Thou dost teach me Thy way. From Psalms 26:3. _unite my heart to fear thy name_ Let it be no longer divided...
DISCOURSE: 645 HOW TO WALK WITH GOD Psalms 86:11. _Teach me thy way, O Lord! I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name._ IN mercy, no less than in judgment, does God see fit to afflic...
UNITE MY HEART, &C.— _Keep close my heart,_ Mudge. The expression denotes the contrary to hypocrisy, or to an insincere and partial obedience, as commonly expressed by a double heart....
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...
See Psalms 26:3; Psalms 27:11. UNITE MY HEART] deliver me from divided purposes and affections....
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...
A reminiscence of older psalms. In addition to the marginal references, see Psalms 26:3. UNITE MY HEART — _i.e.,_ unite all my powers and concentrate them on Thy service. No doubt with recollection of...
הֹ֘ורֵ֤נִי יְהוָ֨ה ׀ דַּרְכֶּ֗ךָ אֲהַלֵּ֥ךְ בַּ אֲמִתֶּ֑ךָ...
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...
(h) Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name. (h) He confesses himself ignorant till God has taught him, and his heart variable and separate from God, till...
11._Show me thy ways, O Jehovah! _David now rises higher, praying that he may be governed by the spirit of sound understanding, in order to his living a holy life, and that he may be strengthened in h...
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...
TEACH ME THY WAY, O LORD,.... The methods of thy grace, which thou hast taken, and dost take, in the salvation of men, in the contrivance, impetration, and application of it; or the way which thou has...
Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name. Ver. 11. _Teach me thy way_] David knew much of God, and yet he desireth to be taught more; delivering himself up...
_Teach me thy way_ Wherein thou wouldst have me to walk. As thou hast taught me by thy word, so also teach me by thy Spirit, that I may clearly discern thy will and my duty, in all conditions and circ...
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...
Teach me Thy way, O Lord, pointing out how the believer may arrange his entire life in conformity with the will of Jehovah; I WILL WALK IN THY TRUTH, in line with the faithfulness of the covenant God;...
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...
THY WAY; wherein thou wouldst have me to walk. As thou hast taught me by thy word, so also by thy Spirit enlighten my mind, that I may clearly discern thy will and my duty in all conditions and circum...
Psalms 86:11 Teach H3384 (H8685) way H1870 LORD H3068 walk H1980 (H8762) truth H571 Unite H3161 ...
FEAR (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 19:9). _...
Psalms 86:11 In the expressions "teach," "fear," "walk," we have religion presented to us in the three aspects of knowledge, feeling, and conduct; in other words, religion in the head, in the heart, a...
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...
_Teach me Thy way, O Lord; I will walk in Thy truth._ MORAL LIGHT I. Moral light sought from the true source. 1. God has a “way” for man. He has a course, a mission for every man. 2. Of this “way”...
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 86:11 TEACH ME YOUR WAY. See Psalms 25:12; Psalms 27:11 (and note
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 Corinthians 10:21; 1 Corinthians 6:17; 2 Corinthians 11:3; 2 John 1:4;...
Truth — In the way of thy precepts, which are true and right in all things. My heart — Knit my whole heart to thyself....