“ For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone. ”
For thou art great, and doest wondrous things - Things suited to excite wonder or admiration; things which lie beyond the power of any creature, and which could be performed by no one but a being...
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...
For. Compare Psalms 86:5 in the Structure. doest . a doer.
10. For thou art great, and thou alone, O God! doest wondrous things. In this verse there is again repeated the cause which will bring all nations to worship before the Lord, namely, the dis...
For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone. For thou art great - Almighty, infinite, eternal. And doest wondrous things - ועשה נפלאות veoseh niphlaoth; thou art the Worker...
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...
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 u...
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...
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 t...
For thou art great ,.... In his nature, and the perfections of it; in his power, wisdom, truth, faithfulness, love, grace, and mercy; and in all his persons; the Father is great, greater than all; t...
For thou [art] great, and doest wondrous things: thou [art] God alone. Ver. 10. For thou art great ] Great is the Lord without quantity, good without quality, everlasting without time, omnipresent...
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 sha...
Petitions and Praises; Prayer for Mercy and Grace. 8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither ar...
Doest wondrous things: this is added as a reason either why the nations should own the true God, because they should see his wonderful works; or why that great work, Psalms 86:9 , was not incred...
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...
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...
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 t...
1 Corinthians 8:4 ; Acts 2:19-22 ; Acts 4:30 ; Daniel 6:26 ; Daniel 6:27 ; Deuteronomy 32:39 ; Deuteronomy 6:3 ; Deuteronomy 6:4 ; Ephesians 4:6 ; Exodus 15:11 ; Hebrews 2:4 ; Isaiah 37:1...