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Verse Psalms 86:6. _GIVE EAR, O LORD_] Attend to _me_. Millions call
upon thee for help and mercy; but who has more need than myself? That
the psalmist was deeply in earnest, his conduct shows.
1. He...
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GIVE EAR, O LORD, UNTO MY PRAYER ... - See the notes at Psalms 5:1....
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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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Taken from Psalms 55:1-2; Psalms 5:2; Psalms 28:2; cp. Psalms 130:2.
_attend_ R.V. hearken....
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Renewed supplication for a hearing. The Psalmist is sure of an answer,
for Jehovah is the only true God, Whom all nations will one day
acknowledge....
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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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Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my
supplications.
-From speaking of God's willingness, the Psalmist passes to God's
omnipotent power to help. Verse 6. ATTEND TO THE VOI...
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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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GIVE EAR. — Here the petition takes a new starting-point....
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הַאֲזִ֣ינָה יְ֭הוָה תְּפִלָּתִ֑י וְ֝
הַקְשִׁ֗יבָה בְּ...
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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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Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and (e) attend to the voice of my
supplications.
(e) By crying and calling continually he shows how we must not be
weary, even though God does not immediately grant...
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Writings. He alone can number the inhabitants: or He will enroll all
nations as citizens of Sion. (Calmet) --- The New Testament explains
the vocation of the Gentiles, and the incarnation of Christ.
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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...
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6_Listen, O Jehovah! to my prayer. _From the earnest repetition of his
former requests in this and the subsequent verse, it is evident that
he was oppressed with no ordinary degree of grief, and also...
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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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GIVE EAR, O LORD, UNTO MY PRAYER,.... As this psalm is called, in the
title of it; his own prayer, and not another's, not one composed for
him, but what was composed by him; this petition is repeated,...
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Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my
supplications.
Ver. 6. _Give ear, O Lord, &c._] The hearing of our duties is
earnestly to be sought and reckoned among our chiefest mer...
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_Give ear, O Lord_, &c. He repeats and multiplies his requests, both
to ease his own troubled mind, and prevail with God, who is well
pleased with his people's importunity in prayer, Luke 18:1, &c. _F...
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Give ear, O Lord, unto my prayer, the psalmist returning once more to
his opening petition, AND ATTEND TO THE VOICE OF MY SUPPLICATIONS,
literally, "of my urgent pleading. ...
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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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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...
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He repeats and multiplies his requests, both to ease his own troubled
mind, and to prevail with God, who is well-pleased with his people's
importunity in prayer. See LUKE 18:1, &c....
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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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_Give ear, O Lord, unto my prayer._
CONCERNING PRAYER
In such a prayer-psalm as this, there is no studying of language: it
is the pouring out of the heart as the heart boils over, the utterance
of th...
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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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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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Psalms 130:2; Psalms 17:1; Psalms 5:1; Psalms 5:2...