Psalms 86:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid. ”

• Psalms 86:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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 whic...

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• Psalms 86:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 86:16 - 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 86:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  have mercy upon . show favour, or he gracious to.

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• Psalms 86:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  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 ass...

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• Psalms 86:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid. O turn unto me - He represents himself as following after God; but he cannot overtake h...

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• Psalms 86:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 86:16 - 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 86:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Servant... son of thine handmaid. — Comp. Psalms 116:16 . The combined expressions imply a homeborn slave. (Comp. Genesis 14:14 ; Jeremiah 2:14 )

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• Psalms 86:16 - 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 86:16 - 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 86:16 - 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 86:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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,...

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• Psalms 86:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 86:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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 t...

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• Psalms 86:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Psalms 86:16 - 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 86:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  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, an...

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• Psalms 86:16 - 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 86:16 - 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 86:16 - 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 86:16 - 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 86:16 - 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 86:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Colossians 1:11 ; Ephesians 3:16 ; Ephesians 6:10 ; Isaiah 40:29-31 ; Isaiah 45:24 ; Luke 1:38 ; Philippians 4:13 ; Psalms 119:132 ; Psalms 138:3 ; Psalms 25:16 ; Psalms 28:7 ; Psalms 28:...

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