Psalms 86:1-6

1 filiis Core psalmus cantici fundamenta eius in montibus sanctis

2 diligit Dominus portas Sion super omnia tabernacula Iacob

3 gloriosa dicta sunt de te civitas Dei diapsalma

4 memor ero Raab et Babylonis scientibus me ecce alienigenae et Tyrus et populus Aethiopum hii fuerunt illic

5 numquid Sion dicet homo et homo natus est in ea et ipse fundavit eam Altissimus

6 Dominus narrabit in scriptura populorum et principum horum qui fuerunt in ea diapsalma

Psalms 86:1-6 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.