Psalm 86:12-17

12 Je te louerai de tout mon coeur, Seigneur, mon Dieu! Et je glorifierai ton nom à perpétuité.

13 Car ta bonté est grande envers moi, Et tu délivres mon âme du séjour profond des morts.

14 O Dieu! des orgueilleux se sont levés contre moi, Une troupe d'hommes violents en veulent à ma vie; Ils ne portent pas leurs pensées sur toi.

15 Mais toi, Seigneur, tu es un Dieu miséricordieux et compatissant, Lent à la colère, riche en bonté et en fidélité;

16 Tourne vers moi les regards et aie pitié de moi, Donne la force à ton serviteur, Et sauve le fils de ta servante!

17 Opère un signe en ma faveur! Que mes ennemis le voient et soient confus! Car tu me secours et tu me consoles, ô Eternel!

Psalm 86:12-17 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.