Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.
-From speaking of God's willingness, the Psalmist passes to God's omnipotent power to help. Verse 6. Attend to the voice of my supplications - `deprecations' х tachªnuwnowtaay (H8469)]. The Psalmist forms a special Hebrew word, feminine plural, not found elsewhere, to convey more impressively the idea of suppliant weakness.
Verse 7. In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me. His assurance of being 'answered' is the ground of David's 'calling upon' God in trouble.
Verse 8,9.-The foundation of his assurance of being 'answered' (Psalms 86:7) David now states-namely, God's almighty power above all that are called gods; so that "all nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee."
Verse 8. Among the gods there is none like unto thee. Exodus 15:11 is the original (cf. Psalms 86:10).
Neither (are there any works) like unto thy works - (Deuteronomy 3:24: cf. 2 Samuel 7:22).
Verse 9. All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord. Even the pagan nations were made by God, and therefore must at last worship Him that made them, and see that their idols are false gods (Zephaniah 2:11; Zechariah 14:9). The creature must necessarily at a future period return to obedience to its Creator (Hengstenberg). So in Ps. 20:27-28 , the ground for anticipating that 'all the ends of the world shall remember, and turn unto the Lord' is, 'for the kingdom is the Lord's, and He is the Governor among the nations.'
Verse 10. For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone. God's wondrous doings shall in the last days constrain the pagan to worship the great and glorious God (Psalms 86:9); especially the wonders which He will do in behalf of Israel against Antichrist and the confederate nations. Hence, Psalms 72:1-20, which foretells His coming kingdom over all the earth, adds (Ps. 86:18-19), "Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things ... and let the whole earth be filled with His glory," (Isaiah 24:1-23; Isaiah 25:1-12.) The hammer of the greatness of God will break the rock of the hearts of the pagan (Hengstenberg).