Psalms 86:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Preserve my soul; for I am holy:a O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee. ”

• Psalms 86:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Preserve my soul - Preserve, or keep, my life; for so the word rendered soul means in this place, as it does commonly in the Scriptures. For I am holy - Margin, “One whom thou favorest.” The...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Preserve my soul; for I [am] (b) holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee. (b) I am not an enemy to them, but I pity them even though they are cruel to me.

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13. holy . one whom Thou favourest. God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4. trusteth . confideth. Hebrew. batah, App-69.

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  2. Preserve my soul, for I am meek. Here the Psalmist adduces two other arguments by which to stir up God to grant him succor, — his own gentleness towards his neighbors, and the trust which...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  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...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee. Preserve my soul - Keep it as in a strong place. For I am holy - כי חשיד אני ki chasid ani, for I am mercifu...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  For I am holy— For I am thy favoured one. Mudge. For I am merciful. Green; which seems a very proper translation; and is as if the Psalmist had said, "Shew that mercy to me which I am so ready...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee. Preserve my soul, for I am holy - (cf. Psalms 86:16 , end.) "Holy" - rather, 'pious' х chaaciyd (...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  For I am holy. — Rather, in order to reproduce the feeling, for I am one of the chosen ones; one of Thy saints, &c. He pleads the covenant relation as a claim to the blessing. (See, on chasi...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I pause at the close of these verses, though thereby a chasm is made in the prayer, to call the Reader's attention to what this petitioner said in it, where the great argument made use of is, that he...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Preserve my soul ,.... Or life, which Saul sought after; and this prayer was heard: David was often remarkably preserved by the Lord from his attempts upon him; and so was the soul or life of Christ...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Preserve my soul; for I [am] holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee. Ver. 2. Preserve my soul, for I am holy ] Or, a favourite, a saint, merciful, such a one as upon whose hea...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Preserve my soul, for I am holy Sanctified in some measure by thy grace, and sincerely devoted to thy service. Hebrew, אני חסיד, ani chasid, I am good, merciful , or pious. Show that mercy to me...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Humble Petitions. A Prayer of David.       1 Bow down thine ear, O L ORD , hear me: for I am poor and needy.   2 Preserv...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  I am holy; sanctified in some measure by thy grace, and sincerely devoted to thy service. This David speaks, not in a way of vain ostentation, but partly as a powerful argument to move God to hear...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - Scofield Reference Notes

  trusteth ( See Scofield) - ( Psalms 2:12 ).

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  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...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 5:3-5 ; 1 Samuel 2:9 ; Deuteronomy 7:7 ; Deuteronomy 7:8 ; Ephesians 1:12 ; Ephesians 1:13 ; Isaiah 26:3 ; Isaiah 26:4 ; John 10:27-29 ; John 12:26 ; John 17:11 ; Psalms 119:94 ;...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 86:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Holy — Sincerely devoted to thy service.

  Read the comments