“ Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.b ”
Be merciful unto me, O Lord - It was mercy after all that he relied on, and not justice. It was not because he had any claim on the ground that he was “holy,” but all that he had and hoped for wa...
Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I (c) cry unto thee daily. (c) Which was a fair token that he believed that God would deliver him.
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...
Be merciful . Show me favour, or Be gracious. LORD*. One of the 134 places where the Sopherim say they changed Jehovah to Adonai. See App-32. daily . all the day.
3 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah! The Psalmist again betakes himself to the mercy of God. The word חנן, chanan, which I have rendered have mercy, is substantially the same as to grat...
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...
Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily. Be merciful unto me - I have no merit; I plead none, but trust in thee alone. I cry unto thee daily - My state deeply affects me; and I incess...
Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily. Be merciful unto me, O Lord. The chief ground of hope, not merely my misery, but God's mercy (cf. Psalms 86:15 ).
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...
Who, that recollects what is said of Christ in the days of his flesh, that he offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears, can fail to trace Jesus in these cries of the soul? R...
DAILY PRAYER ‘I cry unto Thee daily.’ Psalms 86:3 I. This is the only psalm in the third book ascribed to David. —It sounds like his. There is a lyric beauty and pathos about it which are so...
Be merciful unto me, O Lord ,.... In my distressed and miserable condition, being an object of mercy, pity, and compassion; this petition is used by Christ in Psalms 41:10 for I cry unto thee da...
Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily. Ver. 3. Be merciful unto me ] Lest any should, by the former words (I am holy), suspect him to be a merit monger, he beggeth mercy, with ins...
Humble Petitions. A Prayer of David. 1 Bow down thine ear, O L ORD , hear me: for I am poor and needy. 2 Preserv...
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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 86:1-5 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...
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...
Ephesians 6:18 ; Luke 11:8-13 ; Luke 18:7 ; Luke 2:37 ; Psalms 25:5 ; Psalms 55:17 ; Psalms 56:1 ; Psalms 57:1 ; Psalms 88:9