While we here behold Christ as God's servant and God's chosen, surely every believer in him may humbly adopt this prayer and ask for a token of good. And what good equal to the token of God's Spirit, the seal of the covenant, union with Christ, and fellowship with the Father, and with his blessed Son? Oh, for such blessed tokens, whereby believers are sealed unto the day of redemption! Ephesians 1:13.
Verse Psalms 86:16. _O TURN UNTO ME_] He represents himself as following after God; but he cannot overtake him; and then he plays that he would _turn_ and meet him through pity; or give him _strength_...
O TURN UNTO ME, AND HAVE MERCY UPON ME - Look upon me; as if God were now turned away, and were unmindful of his danger, his needs, and his pleading. The expression is equivalent to those in which he...
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...
HAVE MERCY UPON. show favour, or he gracious to....
_O turn_&c. From Psalms 25:16. _have mercy upon me_ Render, be gracious unto me, to shew the connexion with the attribute -gracious" in Psalms 86:15. _thy servant … the son of thine handmaid_ Cp. Psa...
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...
O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid. GIVE THY STRENGTH UNTO THY SERVANT, AND SAVE THE SON OF THINE HANDMAID. As the servan...
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 25:16. THE SON OF THINE HANDMAID] another phrase for 'thy servant': see Psalms 116:16....
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...
SERVANT... SON OF THINE HANDMAID. — Comp. Psalms 116:16. The combined expressions imply a _homeborn slave._ (Comp. Genesis 14:14; Jeremiah 2:14)...
פְּנֵ֥ה אֵלַ֗י וְ חָ֫נֵּ֥נִי תְּנָֽה ־עֻזְּךָ֥...
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...
O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the (l) son of thine handmaid. (l) He boasts not of his own virtues, but confesses that God of his free goodness h...
16._Look to me, and have pity upon me. _Here the Psalmist makes a more distinct application to himself of what he had said concerning the divine mercy and goodness. As God is merciful, he assures hims...
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...
O TURN UNTO ME, AND HAVE MERCY UPON ME,.... For it seems the Lord had turned away from him, and had hid his face, and withheld the manifestation of his grace and mercy from him, and had not yielded hi...
O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid. Ver. 16. _O turn unto me_] Or, look toward me; the life of a believer consisteth in the...
_O turn unto me_ As to one thou lovest, and hast a kind and tender concern for. _And have mercy upon me_ Pity and graciously pardon me, though I have highly offended thee. _Give thy strength unto thy...
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...
O turn unto me, with His face full of divine favor, AND HAVE MERCY UPON ME; GIVE THY STRENGTH, the divine power being the source of all the believer's strength, UNTO THY SERVANT, AND SAVE THE SON OF T...
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...
GIVE THY STRENGTH, to assist, support, and save me. Me, who by thy gracious providence was born not of heathen, but of Israelitish parents, and therefore was in covenant with thee from my birth, and w...
Psalms 86:16 turn H6437 (H8798) mercy H2603 (H8798) Give H5414 (H8798) strength H5797 servant H5650 save...
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
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 86:14 The last section of the psalm explains the source of the trouble: INSOLENT MEN and A BAND OF RUTHLESS MEN. These people DO NOT SET YOU BEFORE THEM (that
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...
Colossians 1:11; Ephesians 3:16; Ephesians 6:10; Isaiah 40:29;...