Psalms 86:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me. ”

Psalms 86:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Shew me a token for good ... - Hebrew, “Make me a sign for good;” that is, Do that for me in my trouble which will be an evidence that thou dost favor me, and wilt save me. Let there be such a ma...
Psalms 86:17 - 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...
Psalms 86:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The last verse contains an additional confirmation of the statement, that he was in a manner forsaken of God. He would not have desired to be favored with some token of the divine favor, had he...
Psalms 86:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it , and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me. Show me a token for good - עשה עמי אוה aseh immi oth "Make with m...
Psalms 86:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Shew me a token for good— Vouchsafe me a token of thy goodness, that they who hate me may see it and be ashamed, and be convinced that thou, O Lord, art he who helpest me and comfortest me. Bisho...
Psalms 86:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me. Show me a token for good - do something so decisive in my f...
Psalms 86:17 - 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...
Psalms 86:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

A token for good — i.e., some sign of continued or renewed providential care and love, such, indeed, as an Israelite under the old covenant saw, and every pious heart under the new sees, in what...
Psalms 86:17 - 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...
Psalms 86:17 - 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...
Psalms 86:17 - 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...
Psalms 86:17 - 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,...
Psalms 86:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Show me a token for good ,.... Not only one by which he might know that his sins were pardoned, and his person accepted with God, and that he should be saved; but one visible to others, even to his...
Psalms 86:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see [it], and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me. Ver. 17. Show me a token for good ] Make me king, as thou hast...
Psalms 86:17 - 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...
Psalms 86:17 - 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...
Psalms 86:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Vouchsafe unto me some evident and eminent token of lay good will to me, for the conviction of mine enemies, and mine own comfort.
Psalms 86:17 - 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...
Psalms 86:17 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 86:17 I. "Show me a token for good." The want thus expressed is a spiritual want; the prayer therefore is for spiritual relief. It is a token of love to his soul, a token of spiritual and e...
Psalms 86:17 - 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...
Psalms 86:17 - 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...
Psalms 86:17 - 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...
Psalms 86:17 - 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...
Psalms 86:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 5:5 ; Isaiah 38:22 ; Micah 7:8-10 ; Psalms 40:1 ; Psalms 41:10 ; Psalms 41:11 ; Psalms 71:20 ; Psalms 71:21 ; Psalms 74:9 ; Psalms 71:9-1

Psalms 86:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 86:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 86:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 86:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 86:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 86:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 86:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 86:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 86:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 86:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 86:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 86:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 86:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 86:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 86:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 86:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 86:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 86:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 86:17 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 86:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 86:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 86:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 86:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 86:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge