Salmos 86

1 Salmo 86
Oración de David.
Inclínate, oh Señor
, y escucha mi oración;
contéstame, porque necesito tu ayuda.

2 Protégeme, pues estoy dedicado a ti.
Sálvame, porque te sirvo y confío en ti;
tú eres mi Dios.

3 Ten misericordia de mí, oh Señor,
porque a ti clamo constantemente.

4 Dame felicidad, oh Señor,
pues a ti me entrego.

5 ¡Oh Señor, eres tan bueno, estás tan dispuesto a perdonar,
tan lleno de amor inagotable para los que piden tu ayuda!

6 Escucha atentamente mi oración, oh Señor
;
oye mi urgente clamor.

7 A ti clamaré cada vez que esté en apuros,
y tú me responderás.

8 Ningún dios pagano es como tú, oh Señor;
¡nadie puede hacer lo que tú haces!

9 Todas las naciones que hiciste
vendrán y se inclinarán ante ti, Señor;
alabarán tu santo nombre.

10 Pues tú eres grande y haces obras maravillosas;
solo tú eres Dios.

11 Enséñame tus caminos, oh Señor
,
para que viva de acuerdo con tu verdad.
Concédeme pureza de corazón,
para que te honre.

12 Con todo el corazón te alabaré, oh Señor mi Dios;
daré gloria a tu nombre para siempre,

13 porque muy grande es tu amor por mí;
me has rescatado de las profundidades de la muerte.

14 Oh Dios, gente insolente se levanta en mi contra;
una pandilla violenta trata de matarme.
No significas nada para ellos.

15 Pero tú, oh Señor,
eres Dios de compasión y misericordia,
lento para enojarte
y lleno de amor inagotable y fidelidad.

16 Mírame y ten misericordia de mí.
Dale tu fuerza a tu siervo;
salva a este hijo de tu sierva.

17 Envíame una señal de tu favor.
Entonces, los que me odian pasarán vergüenza,
porque tú, oh Señor
, me ayudas y me consuelas.

Salmos 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.