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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...
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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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SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13.
HOLY. one whom Thou favourest.
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4.
TRUSTETH. confideth. Hebrew. _batah,_ App-69....
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A series of petitions, each supported by the ground on which the
Psalmist pleads for a hearing....
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_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;...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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PRESERVE MY SOUL, etc.] see Psalms 25:20. HOLY] RV 'godly'; rather,
'one whom thou favourest.'...
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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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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...
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שָֽׁמְרָ֣ה נַפְשִׁי֮ כִּֽי ־חָסִ֪יד
אָ֥נִי הֹושַׁ֣ע...
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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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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....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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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HOLY:
Or, one whom thou favourest...
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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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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...
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Psalms 86:2 Preserve H8104 (H8798) life H5315 holy H2623 God H430 Save
H3467 (H8685) servant H5650 trusts...
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TRUSTETH
(_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...
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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...
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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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_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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1 Peter 5:3; 1 Samuel 2:9; Deuteronomy 7:7; Deuteronomy 7:8; Ephesi
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Holy — Sincerely devoted to thy service....