“ Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. ”
Rejoice the soul of thy servant - Cause me to rejoice; to wit, by thy gracious interposition, and by delivering me from danger and death. For unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul - Compare...
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...
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...
Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. Rejoice the soul of thy servant - I want spiritual blessings; I want such consolations as thou dost impart to them that l...
Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul - quoted from Psalms 25:1 . The sma...
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...
Rejoice the soul of thy servant ,.... With the discoveries of love, of pardoning grace, and mercy, before made sad with sin or sufferings; and with the light of God's countenance, before troubled wi...
Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. Ver. 4. Rejoice the soul of thy servant ] True and solid joy entereth the soul by the door of fervent prayer. Pray tha...
Rejoice the soul of thy servant It is God only that can put gladness into the heart, and make the soul rejoice; and it is the privilege of his servants to have joy , as well as peace, in believin...
Humble Petitions. A Prayer of David. 1 Bow down thine ear, O L ORD , hear me: for I am poor and needy. 2 Preserv...
The expression notes fervent desire joined with hope or expectation, as appears by comparing Deuteronomy 24:15 Jeremiah 22:27 .
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...
Isaiah 61:3 ; Isaiah 65:18 ; Isaiah 66:13 ; Isaiah 66:14 ; Psalms 143:8 ; Psalms 25:1 ; Psalms 51:12 ; Psalms 62:8