Psalms 86:13-14

13 For Your lovingkindness toward me is great, And You have ¹delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

14 O God, arrogant men have ²risen up against me, And a band of violent men have sought my life, And they have not set You before them.

Psalms 86:13-14 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. Psalms 30:3
• 2. Psalms 54:3

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "lowest Sheol"
• [b]. I.e. the nether world
• [c]. Or "an assembly"
• [d]. Lit "soul"