Psalms 86:2

Preserve my soul = Psalms 25:20.

for Iam holy R.V. godly fails to bring out the connexion of the word with chesed, -lovingkindness" (Psalms 86:5; Psalms 86:13; Psalms 86:15). Cheyne gives duteous in love. But the passive sense beloved, -the object of thy loving-kindness," is far more suitable. He pleads not his own merits, but the covenant relation into which God has brought him as an Israelite. See on Psalms 50:5; Psalms 85:8.