Salmi 86

1 Orazione di Davide O SIGNORE, inchina l’orecchio tuo, e rispondimi; Perciocchè io sono afflitto e misero.

2 Guarda l’anima mia; perciocchè io mi studio a pietà; O tu, Dio mio, salva il tuo servitore che si confida in te.

3 O Signore, abbi pietà di me; Perciocchè io grido a te tuttodì.

4 Rallegra l’anima del tuo servitore; Perciocchè io levo l’anima mia a te, o Signore.

5 Perciocchè tu, Signore, sei buono e perdonatore; E di gran benignità inverso tutti quelli che t’invocano.

6 O Signore, porgi gli orecchi alla mia orazione; E attendi al grido delle mie supplicazioni.

7 Io t’invoco nel giorno della mia distretta; Perciocchè tu mi risponderai.

8 Non vi è niuno pari a te fra gl’iddii, o Signore; E non vi sono alcune opere pari alle tue.

9 Tutte le genti le quali tu hai fatte, verranno, E adoreranno nel tuo cospetto, o Signore; E glorificheranno il tuo Nome.

10 Perciocchè tu sei grande, e facitore di maraviglie; Tu solo sei Dio.

11 O Signore, insegnami la tua via, E fa’ che io cammini nella tua verità; Unisci il mio cuore al timor del tuo nome.

12 Io ti celebrerò, o Signore Iddio mio, con tutto il mio cuore; E glorificherò il tuo Nome in perpetuo.

13 Perciocchè la tua benignità è grande sopra me; E tu hai riscossa l’anima mia dal fondo del sepolcro.

14 O Dio, uomini superbi si son levati contro a me; Ed una raunanza di violenti, I quali non ti pongono davanti agli occhi loro, Cercano l’anima mia.

15 Ma tu, Signore, sei l’Iddio misericordioso e pietoso, Lento all’ira, e di gran benignità e verità.

16 Volgi la tua faccia verso me, ed abbi pietà di me; Da’ la tua forza al tuo servitore, E salva il figliuolo della tua servente.

17 Opera inverso me qualche miracolo in bene, Sì che quelli che mi odiano lo veggano, e sieno confusi; Perciocchè tu, Signore, mi avrai aiutato, e mi avrai consolato.

Salmi 86 Commentary

Chapter 86

The psalmist pleads his earnestness, and the mercy of God, as reasons why his prayer should be heard. (1-7) He renews his requests for help and comfort. (8-17)

Verses 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, hast set apart for thyself, and made partaker of sanctifying grace. It is a great encouragement to prayer, to feel that we have received the converting grace of God, have learned to trust in him, and to be his servants. We may expect comfort from God, when we keep up our communion with God. God's goodness appears in two things, in giving and forgiving. Whatever others do, let us call upon God, and commit our case to him; we shall not seek in vain.

Verses 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 will be more desirous to be taught the way and the truth of God, in order to walk therein, than to be delivered out of earthly distress. Those who set not the Lord before them, seek after believers' souls; but the compassion, mercy, and truth of God, will be their refuge and consolation. And those whose parents were the servants of the Lord, may urge this as a plea why he should hear and help them. In considering David's experience, and that of the believer, we must not lose sight of Him, who though he was rich, for our sakes became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich.

Chapter Summary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 86

\\<>\\. The title is the same with the Seventeenth Psalm, and the subject of it is much alike: it was written by David, when in distress, and his life was sought after; very likely when he was persecuted by Saul, and fled from him; so Aben Ezra, Jarchi, and Kimchi: and as he was a type of Christ in his afflictions, as well as in his exalted state, it may not be unfitly applied to him, as it is by some interpreters. The Syriac inscription of it is, ``for David, when he built an house for the Lord; and a prophecy of the calling of the Gentiles; and moreover, a prayer of a peculiar righteous man.'' Theodoret thinks it predicts the siege of Jerusalem by the Assyrians, and Hezekiah's hope in God.