For Thou art great and doest wondrous things, the only miracles really worthy of the name being those performed by Jehovah; Thou art God alone. This being the case, the psalmist longs to be more closely united with God by the bands of faith.
Verse Psalms 86:10. _FOR THOU_ ART _GREAT_] Almighty, infinite, eternal. _AND DOEST WONDROUS THINGS_] ועשה נפלאות _veoseh niphlaoth_; thou art the _Worker of miracles_. This thou hast done in numerou...
FOR THOU ART GREAT, AND DOEST WONDROUS THINGS - Things suited to excite wonder or admiration; things which lie beyond the power of any creature, and which could be performed by no one but a being of a...
Psalms 86 A Prayer _ 1. The prayer of the poor and needy one (Psalms 86:1)_ 2. The praise of His Name (Psalms 86:10) This Psalm has for an inscription “A prayer of David.” We can hear in it the vo...
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. The Psalmist prays for succour, pleading God's mercy and his own piet...
FOR. Compare Psalms 86:5 in the Structure. DOEST. a doer....
Cp. Psalms 77:13-14; Psalms 72:18; Psalms 83:18; and Exodus 15:11;...
Renewed supplication for a hearing. The Psalmist is sure of an answer, for Jehovah is the only true God, Whom all nations will one day acknowledge....
PSALMS 86 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Prayer of a Tried and Faithful Servant of Jehovah. ANALYSIS The Psalmist prays to be Heard and Answered and for his Life to be Preserved because of his Need (Psalms 86:1...
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 VOI...
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 univ...
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ BITS AND PIECES PSALMS 86 They said to Jesus, "Teach us to pray". He said, "Ask and you will receive. Look and you will find. Knock and it will open to you". (Fro...
כִּֽי ־גָדֹ֣ול אַ֭תָּה וְ עֹשֵׂ֣ה נִפְלָאֹ֑ות...
Psalms 86:1 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 beseech...
A PRAYER TO THE GOD OF MERCY Psalms 86:1 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 avails itsel...
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...
Here is a sweet reference to the covenant of redemption in and by Christ; and I would fain persuade myself that Christ had an eye to it in what is here said. God the Father promised to give his Son th...
10._For thou art great, and thou alone, O God! doest wondrous things. _In this verse there is again repeated the cause which will bring all nations to worship before the Lord, namely, the discovery ma...
Psalms 86. This psalm is the meek yet confiding and confident appeal of a soul conscious of its godly feelings towards Jehovah and looking to the results of relationship with Him. We have had Jehovah...
FOR THOU ART GREAT,.... In his nature, and the perfections of it; in his power, wisdom, truth, faithfulness, love, grace, and mercy; and in all his persons; the Father is great, greater than all; the...
For thou [art] great, and doest wondrous things: thou [art] God alone. Ver. 10. _For thou art great_] Great is the Lord without quantity, good without quality, everlasting without time, omnipresent w...
_All nations whom thou hast made_ For, as thou hast made them, thou canst easily convince and convert them to thyself; _shall come and worship before thee_ Shall forsake their impotent idols, and shal...
8-17 Our God alone possesses almighty power and infinite love. Christ is the way and the truth. And the believing soul will be more desirous to be taught the way and the truth. And the believing soul...
DOEST WONDROUS THINGS: this is added as a reason either why the nations should own the true God, because they should see his wonderful works; or why that great work, PSALMS 86:9, was not incredible, b...
Psalms 86:10 great H1419 do H6213 (H8802) things H6381 (H8737) God H430 For - Psalms 86:8,...
CONTENTS: The malice of enemies deplored. God's goodness pleaded in prayer for mercy. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The best self preservation is to commit ourselves to God's keeping and by fa...
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 whi...
_Thou. .. doest wondrous things._ CURIOSITIES In this age a great amount of wealth is lavished on “curiosities.” I. One of the greatest curosities which has been made for you is the created world. W...
_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 every man...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 86:1. This is an individual lament in a situation in which “a band of insolent men seek my life” (v. Psalms 86:14). The psalm confesses tha
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 86:8 The psalm moves from THERE IS NONE LIKE YOU who is worthy of worship AMONG THE GODS (that is, the angels and other heavenly beings), to YOU ALONE ARE GOD. T
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....
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,...
Psa 86:1-17 we have another psalm of David. David said, 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 is trusting...
1 Corinthians 8:4; Acts 2:19; Acts 4:30; Daniel 6:26; Daniel 6:27;...