-
Verse Psalms 86:5. _FOR THOU, LORD_, ART _GOOD_] I found my
expectations of help on thy own goodness through which thou art always
ready to forgive. And I found it also on thy well-known character, to...
-
FOR THOU, LORD, ART GOOD ... - This is another reason why God should
hear his prayer; and it is a reason which may be properly urged at all
times, and by all classes of persons. It is founded on the b...
-
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...
-
PLENTEOUS. Compare Exodus 34:6.
MERCY. lovingkindness, or grace....
-
A series of petitions, each supported by the ground on which the
Psalmist pleads for a hearing....
-
_ready to forgive_ The exact word is found only here, but for the
thought see Psalms 130:4; and for the whole verse cp. Exodus 34:6 f....
-
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...
-
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...
-
For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in
mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
FOR THOU, LORD, ART GOOD, AND READY TO FORGIVE. God's forgiving
character is one manifesta...
-
86:5 forgive, (d-9) Lit. 'forgiving.'...
-
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...
-
FOR THOU. — Up to this time the psalmist has only put forward his
needs in various aspects as a plea for God’s compassion. Now, not
without art, he clenches his petition by an appeal to the nature
its...
-
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...
-
For thou, Lord, [art] good, and (d) ready to forgive; and plenteous in
mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
(d) He confesses that God is good to all but only merciful to poor
sinners....
-
Shall not Sion say, &c. The meaning is, that Sion, viz., the Church,
shall not only be able to commemorate this or that particular person
of renown born in her, but also to glory in great multitudes o...
-
Who, that recollects what is said of Christ in the days of his flesh,
that he offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and
tears, can fail to trace Jesus in these cries of the soul? Re...
-
5_For thou, O Lord! art good and propitious. _(483) We have here a
confirmation of the whole preceding doctrine, derived from the nature
of God. It would avail the afflicted nothing to have recourse t...
-
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, LORD, ART GOOD,.... Essentially and independently good, from
whom every good and perfect gift comes; good in himself, and good to
others; good to all, in a providential way; and good to his...
-
For thou, Lord, [art] good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in
mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
Ver. 5. _For thou, Lord, art good, &c._] Lord, I am hell, but thou art
heaven, said that ma...
-
_Rejoice the soul of thy servant_ It is God only that can put gladness
into the heart, and make the soul rejoice; and it is the privilege of
his servants to have _joy_, as well as _peace, in believing...
-
For Thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, willing, not to
ignore, but to remit sins; AND PLENTEOUS IN MERCY, abundant in grace,
UNTO ALL THEM THAT CALL UPON THEE, in the true worship of the hear...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Herewith he relieveth himself under the sense of his guilt, whereby he
had brought his present calamities upon himself. THEM THAT CALL UPON
THEE, to wit, in truth, as it is explained PSALMS 145:18, or...
-
Psalms 86:5 Lord H136 good H2896 forgive H5546 abundant H7227 mercy
H2617 call H7121 (H8802)
thou -...
-
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...
-
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...
-
_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
-
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 John 4:8; 1 John 4:9; Acts 2:21; Daniel 9:9; Ephesians 1:6;...