Salmos 86

Oración de David.

1 Atiéndeme, SEÑOR; respóndeme,pues pobre soy y estoy necesitado.

2 Presérvame la vida, pues te soy fiel.Tú eres mi Dios, y en ti confío;¡salva a tu siervo!

3 Compadécete, Señor, de mí,porque a ti clamo todo el día.

4 Reconforta el espíritu de tu siervo,porque a ti, Señor, elevo mi alma.

5 Tú, Señor, eres bueno y perdonador;grande es tu amor por todos los que te invocan.

6 Presta oído, SEÑOR, a mi oración;atiende a la voz de mi clamor.

7 En el día de mi angustia te invoco,porque tú me respondes.

8 No hay, Señor, entre los dioses otro como tú,ni hay obras semejantes a las tuyas.

9 Todas las naciones que has creadovendrán, Señor, y ante ti se postrarány glorificarán tu nombre.

10 Porque tú eres grande y haces maravillas;¡solo tú eres Dios!

11 Instrúyeme, SEÑOR, en tu caminopara conducirme con fidelidad.Dame integridad de corazónpara temer tu nombre.

12 Señor mi Dios, con todo el corazón te alabaré,y por siempre glorificaré tu nombre.

13 Porque grande es tu amor por mí:me has librado de caer en el sepulcro.

14 Gente altanera me ataca, oh Dios;una banda de asesinos procura matarme.¡Son gente que no te toma en cuenta!

15 Pero tú, Señor, eres Dios clemente y compasivo,lento para la ira, y grande en amor y verdad.

16 Vuélvete hacia mí, y tenme compasión;concédele tu fuerza a este siervo tuyo.¡Salva a tu hijo fiel!^[a]

17 Dame una muestra de tu amor,para que mis enemigos la vean y se avergüencen,porque tú, SEÑOR, me has brindado ayuda y consuelo.

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.

Footnotes

• [a]. "a tu hijo fiel" . Lit. "al hijo de tu sierva" .

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.