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John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 86:2

Preserve my soul; for I [am] holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.

Ver. 2. Preserve my soul, for I am holy] Or, a favourite, a saint, merciful, such a one as upon whose heart the tender mercies of the Almighty, shed forth abundantly, do leave a compassionate frame. David had the Divine nature transfused into him; he was holy as God is holy; and merciful as God is merciful (in quality though not in equality), but all of free grace; and this he pleadeth for his own safety.

Save thy servant] Serva servum tuum, thy devoted servant, and not thy beneficiary only.

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See also Psalms 86:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 86:2. _PRESERVE MY SOUL_] Keep it as in a strong place. _FOR I_ AM _HOLY_] כי חשיד אני _ki chasid ani_, for I am merciful. The spirit of this prayer is, "The mercy I to others show, Th...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    PRESERVE MY SOUL - Preserve, or keep, my life; for so the word rendered soul means in this place, as it does commonly in the Scriptures. FOR I AM HOLY - Margin, “One whom thou favorest.” The Hebrew wo...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. HOLY. one whom Thou favourest. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. TRUSTETH. confideth. Hebrew. _batah,_ App-69....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A series of petitions, each supported by the ground on which the Psalmist pleads for a hearing....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Preserve my soul_ = Psalms 25:20. _for I_am _holy_ R.V. godly fails to bring out the connexion of the word with _chesed_, -lovingkindness" (Psalms 86:5; Psalms 86:13;...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 644 A PRAYING SPIRIT EXEMPLIFIED Psalms 86:1. 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 trusteth in...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR I AM HOLY— _For I am thy favoured one._ Mudge. _For I am merciful._ Green; which seems a very proper translation; and is as if the Psalmist had said, "Shew that mercy to me which I am so ready and...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee. PRESERVE MY SOUL, FOR I AM HOLY - (cf. Psalms 86:16, end.) "Holy" - rather, 'pious' [ chaaciyd (H2623). So th...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    86:2 godly; (c-7) Or 'pious,' 'holy,' _ chasid_ , one who is the object of God's loving-kindness ( _ chesed_ ). see ver. 13 and Psalms 85:7 ,Psalms 85:10 , and Note to Psalms 4:3 ; and, by way of con...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PRESERVE MY SOUL, etc.] see Psalms 25:20. HOLY] RV 'godly'; rather, 'one whom thou favourest.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    FOR I AM HOLY. — Rather, in order to reproduce the feeling, _for I am one of the chosen ones; one of Thy saints, &c._ He pleads the covenant relation as a claim to the blessing. (See, on _chasid,_ Not...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    שָֽׁמְרָ֣ה נַפְשִׁי֮ כִּֽי ־חָסִ֪יד אָ֥נִי הֹושַׁ֣ע...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Preserve my soul; for I [am] (b) holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee. (b) I am not an enemy to them, but I pity them even though they are cruel to me....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Jacob. Jerusalem belonged to some of his children. Hence the psalmist clearly speaks of something better, even of the Church of Christ, (Berthier) which God has chosen for his spouse, having abandone...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I pause at the close of these verses, though thereby a chasm is made in the prayer, to call the Reader's attention to what this petitioner said in it, where the great argument made use of is, that he...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    2._Preserve my soul, for I am meek. _Here the Psalmist adduces two other arguments by which to stir up God to grant him succor, — his own gentleness towards his neighbors, and the trust which he repos...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    PRESERVE MY SOUL,.... Or life, which Saul sought after; and this prayer was heard: David was often remarkably preserved by the Lord from his attempts upon him; and so was the soul or life of Christ pr...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Preserve my soul, for I am holy_ Sanctified in some measure by thy grace, and sincerely devoted to thy service. Hebrew, אני חסיד, _ani chasid, I am good, merciful_, or _pious._ Show that mercy to me...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Preserve my soul, in the midst of persecution and suffering; FOR I AM HOLY, a saint of God, under His favor. O THOU, MY GOD, SAVE THY SERVANT THAT TRUSTETH IN THEE, clinging to Jehovah with the full c...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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 term...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    HOLY: Or, one whom thou favourest...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-7 Our poverty and wretchedness, when felt, powerfully plead in our behalf at the throne of grace. The best self-preservation is to commit ourselves to God's keeping. I am one whom thou favourest, h...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I AM HOLY; sanctified in some measure by thy grace, and sincerely devoted to thy service. This David speaks, not in a way of vain ostentation, but partly as a powerful argument to move God to hear his...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 86:2 Preserve H8104 (H8798) life H5315 holy H2623 God H430 Save H3467 (H8685) servant H5650 trusts...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    TRUSTETH (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 86:1 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 by thr...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 5:3; 1 Samuel 2:9; Deuteronomy 7:7; Deuteronomy 7:8; Ephesi

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Holy — Sincerely devoted to thy service....

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