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Verse Psalms 86:17. _SHOW ME A TOKEN FOR GOOD_] עשה עמי אוה
_aseh immi oth_, "_Make_ with me a sign." Fix the honourabie mark of
thy name upon me, that I may be known to be thy servant. There seems
t...
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SHEW ME A TOKEN FOR GOOD ... - Hebrew, “Make me a sign for good;”
that is, Do that for me in my trouble which will be an evidence that
thou dost favor me, and wilt save me. Let there be such a manifes...
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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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_a token for good_ Some visible and unmistakable sign of Thy favour
towards me. Cp. Jeremiah 24:6; Ezra 8:22; Nehemiah 5:19; Nehemiah
13:31....
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SHEW ME A TOKEN FOR GOOD— _Vouchsafe me a token of thy goodness,
that they who hate me may see it and be ashamed, and be convinced that
thou, O Lord, art he who helpest me and comfortest me._ Bishop H...
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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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Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be
ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.
SHOW ME A TOKEN FOR GOOD - do something so decisive in my favour...
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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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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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A TOKEN FOR GOOD — _i.e.,_ some sign of continued or renewed
providential care and love, such, indeed, as an Israelite under the
old covenant saw, and every pious heart under the new sees, in what to...
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עֲשֵֽׂה ־עִמִּ֥י אֹ֗ות לְ טֹ֫ובָ֥ה וְ
יִרְא֣ו
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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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PSALM LXXXVI. (FUNDAMENTA EJUS.)
The glory of the Church of Christ....
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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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REFLECTIONS
Pause, Reader, yet a little longer, and hear the cries which Jesus,
thy Surety, used in the days of his flesh. He begs the Father to
incline his ear to him, for, though holy, he is poor an...
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The last verse contains an additional confirmation of the statement,
that he was in a manner forsaken of God. He would not have desired to
be favored with some token of the divine favor, had he not be...
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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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SHOW ME A TOKEN FOR GOOD,.... Not only one by which he might know that
his sins were pardoned, and his person accepted with God, and that he
should be saved; but one visible to others, even to his ene...
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Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see [it], and be
ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.
Ver. 17. _Show me a token for good_] Make me king, as thou hast
p...
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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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Show me a token for good, an evidence of divine favor, a special
measure of His blessings, THAT THEY WHICH HATE ME MAY SEE IT AND BE
ASHAMED, covered with shame on account of the favor of the Lord so...
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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...
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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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Vouchsafe unto me some evident and eminent token of lay good will to
me, for the conviction of mine enemies, and mine own comfort....
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Psalms 86:17 Show H6213 (H8798) sign H226 good H2896 hate H8130
(H8802) see H7200 (H8799) ashamed...
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Psalms 86:17
I. "Show me a token for good." The want thus expressed is a spiritual
want; the prayer therefore is for spiritual relief. It is a token of
love to his soul, a token of spiritual and eter...
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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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_Show me a token for good, that they which hate me may see it, and be
ashamed; because Thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and comforted me._
TOKENS FOR GOOD
At the outset note--
1. How this man in the hou...
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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...