“ Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy. ”
Bow down thine ear, O Lord, hear me - See the notes at Psalms 5:1 . For I am poor and needy - This is the reason here assigned why God should hear him. It is not a plea of merit. It is not t...
"A Prayer of David." Bow down (a) thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I [am] poor and needy. (a) David, when persecuted by Saul, prayed this way, leaving the same to the Church as a monument, how to see...
LXXXVI. The Prayer of a Godly Man in Affliction. This Ps. is little more than a cento from the rest of the Psalter. Psalms 86:1-10 . The Psalmist prays for succour, pleading God's mercy and hi...
Title.. Prayer . An Intercession, or Hymn. Compare Psalms 72:20 , referring to the whole of Book II. Hebrew. Tephillah. See App-63. of David. The only Psalm in this third book ascribed to Davi...
1. Incline thy ear, O Jehovah! Neither the inscription nor the contents of this psalm enable us to conclude with certainty what dangers David here complains of; but the psalm in all probabil...
DISCOURSE: 644 A PRAYING SPIRIT EXEMPLIFIED Psalms 86:1-5 . 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 tru...
A Prayer of David. Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy. Bow down thine ear - Spoken after the manner of men: I am so low, and so weak, that, unless thou stoop to me, my voi...
David strengtheneth his prayer by the conscience of his religion, by the goodness and power of God: he desireth the continuance of former grace: complaining of the proud, he craveth some token of Go...
Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy. Psalms 86:1-17 .-God's grace to His trusting people their ground of expecting deliverance ( Psalms 86:1-5 ); His omnipotence to h...
Hear] RV 'answer.' Poor and needy ] see Psalms 40:17 ; Psalms 70:5 .
Psalms 86:1-17 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...
a Prayer to the God of Mercy Psalms 86:1-17 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 ava...
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...
CONTENTS The royal Prophet is at his devotions; and in beholding David, surely we must not overlook him, of whom David was so eminent a type. We find strong faith joined with earnest prayer in the o...
Bow down thine ear, O Lord, hear me ,.... This is spoken of God after the manner of men, who, when they listen and attentively hearken to what is said to them, stoop and bow the head, and incline th...
Psalms 86:1 «A Prayer of David. » Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I [am] poor and needy. A prayer ] Left for a form, for a help to devotion, as was also Psa 102:1 title. Ver. 1. Bow...
Bow down thine ear, O Lord When God hears our prayers he is fifty said to bow down his ear to them, for it is great condescension in him even to take notice of such mean creatures as we are, and...
Humble Petitions. A Prayer of David. 1 Bow down thine ear, O L ORD , hear me: for I am poor and needy. 2 Preserv...
PSALM 86 When he was in some deep distress, either from Saul, or by Absalom, or upon some other occasion. David strengtheneth himself in prayer by the truth of his religion, Psalms 86:1-4 , and...
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...
Psalms 86:1-5 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...
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...
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 ever...
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 86:8-19 , Psalms 86:15 ) a...
Bow down Thine ear, in the attitude of the very closest attention, O Lord, hear me; for I am poor and needy. Cf Psalms 40:17 .
Daniel 9:18 ; Isaiah 37:17 ; Isaiah 66:2 ; James 1:10 ; James 1:9 ; James 2:5 ; Luke 4:18 ; Matthew 5:3 ; Psalms 10:14 ; Psalms 102:17 ; Psalms 119:22 ; Psalms 140:12 ; Psalms 31:2 ; Ps...