Psalms 86:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name. ”

• Psalms 86:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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 liv...

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• Psalms 86:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (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...

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• Psalms 86:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 86:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Unite my heart. Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulg, read "Let my heart rejoice". fear . revere. name. See note on Psalms 20:1 .

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• Psalms 86:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  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 strength...

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• Psalms 86:11 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  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...

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• Psalms 86:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name. Teach me thy way - Instruct me in the steps I should take; for without thy teaching I must go astray. Unite my he...

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• Psalms 86:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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.

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• Psalms 86:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 86:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 86:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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 recollect...

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• Psalms 86:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Psalms 86:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 86:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 86:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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 .

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• Psalms 86:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 86:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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 u...

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• Psalms 86:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 cir...

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• Psalms 86:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Petitions and Praises; Prayer for Mercy and Grace.       8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither ar...

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• Psalms 86:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  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 cir...

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• Psalms 86:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 86:11 - Scofield Reference Notes

  fear ( See Scofield) - ( Psalms 19:9 ).

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• Psalms 86:11 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  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 hear...

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• Psalms 86:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Psalms 86:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Psalms 86:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 86:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  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...

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• Psalms 86:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 10:21 ; 1 Corinthians 6:17 ; 2 Corinthians 11:3 ; 2 John 1:4 ; 3 John 1:3 ; 3 John 1:4 ; Acts 2:46 ; Colossians 3:17 ; Colossians 3:22 ; Colossians 3:23 ; Ephesians 4:21 ; H...

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• Psalms 86:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Truth — In the way of thy precepts, which are true and right in all things. My heart — Knit my whole heart to thyself.

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