Psalms 86:10-17

10 For you are great and do marvelous deeds; you alone are God.

11 Teach me your way, LORD, that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.

12 I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever.

13 For great is your love toward me; you have delivered me from the depths, from the realm of the dead.

14 Arrogant foes are attacking me, O God; ruthless people are trying to kill me— they have no regard for you.

15 But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.

16 Turn to me and have mercy on me; show your strength in behalf of your servant; save me, because I serve you just as my mother did.

17 Give me a sign of your goodness, that my enemies may see it and be put to shame, for you, LORD, have helped me and comforted me.

Psalms 86:10-17 Meaning and Commentary

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.

Cross References

• 1. S 2 Samuel 7:22; S Psalms 48:1
• 2. S Exodus 3:20; S Psalms 71:17; Psalms 72:18
• 3. S Deuteronomy 6:4; S Isaiah 43:10; Mark 12:29; 1 Corinthians 8:4
• 4. S Exodus 33:13; S 1 Samuel 12:23; Psalms 25:5
• 5. S Psalms 26:3
• 6. Jeremiah 24:7; Jeremiah 32:39; Ezekiel 11:19; 1 Corinthians 7:35
• 7. S Deuteronomy 6:24
• 8. S Psalms 9:1
• 9. S Psalms 34:4; Psalms 49:15; Psalms 116:8
• 10. S Psalms 16:10; S Psalms 56:13
• 11. Psalms 54:3
• 12. S Psalms 51:1; Psalms 103:8; Psalms 111:4; Psalms 116:5; Psalms 145:8
• 13. Numbers 14:18
• 14. ver 5
• 15. S Exodus 34:6; S Nehemiah 9:17; Joel 2:13
• 16. S Psalms 6:4
• 17. S Psalms 9:13
• 18. Psalms 18:1
• 19. Psalms 116:16
• 20. S Exodus 3:12; Matthew 24:3; S John 2:11