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Verse Psalms 86:16. _O TURN UNTO ME_] He represents himself as
following after God; but he cannot overtake him; and then he plays
that he would _turn_ and meet him through pity; or give him _strength_...
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O TURN UNTO ME, AND HAVE MERCY UPON ME - Look upon me; as if God were
now turned away, and were unmindful of his danger, his needs, and his
pleading. The expression is equivalent to those in which he...
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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...
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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...
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HAVE MERCY UPON. show favour, or he gracious to....
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_O turn_&c. From Psalms 25:16.
_have mercy upon me_ Render, be gracious unto me, to shew the
connexion with the attribute -gracious" in Psalms 86:15.
_thy servant … the son of thine handmaid_ Cp. Psa...
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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...
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O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy
servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
GIVE THY STRENGTH UNTO THY SERVANT, AND SAVE THE SON OF THINE
HANDMAID. As the servan...
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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...
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See Psalms 25:16.
THE SON OF THINE HANDMAID] another phrase for 'thy servant': see
Psalms 116:16....
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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...
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SERVANT... SON OF THINE HANDMAID. — Comp. Psalms 116:16. The
combined expressions imply a _homeborn slave._ (Comp. Genesis 14:14;
Jeremiah 2:14)...
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פְּנֵ֥ה אֵלַ֗י וְ חָ֫נֵּ֥נִי תְּנָֽה
־עֻזְּךָ֥...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy
servant, and save the (l) son of thine handmaid.
(l) He boasts not of his own virtues, but confesses that God of his
free goodness h...
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While we here behold Christ as God's servant and God's chosen, surely
every believer in him may humbly adopt this prayer and ask for a token
of good. And what good equal to the token of God's Spirit,...
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16._Look to me, and have pity upon me. _Here the Psalmist makes a more
distinct application to himself of what he had said concerning the
divine mercy and goodness. As God is merciful, he assures hims...
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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...
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O TURN UNTO ME, AND HAVE MERCY UPON ME,.... For it seems the Lord had
turned away from him, and had hid his face, and withheld the
manifestation of his grace and mercy from him, and had not yielded hi...
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O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy
servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
Ver. 16. _O turn unto me_] Or, look toward me; the life of a believer
consisteth in the...
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_O turn unto me_ As to one thou lovest, and hast a kind and tender
concern for. _And have mercy upon me_ Pity and graciously pardon me,
though I have highly offended thee. _Give thy strength unto thy...
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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...
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GIVE THY STRENGTH, to assist, support, and save me. Me, who by thy
gracious providence was born not of heathen, but of Israelitish
parents, and therefore was in covenant with thee from my birth, and
w...
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Psalms 86:16 turn H6437 (H8798) mercy H2603 (H8798) Give H5414 (H8798)
strength H5797 servant H5650 save...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 86:14 The last section of the psalm explains
the source of the trouble: INSOLENT MEN and A BAND OF RUTHLESS MEN.
These people DO NOT SET YOU BEFORE THEM (that
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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....
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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,...
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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...
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Colossians 1:11; Ephesians 3:16; Ephesians 6:10; Isaiah 40:29;...