Psalms 86:2-12

2 Protect me, because I am faithful [to you]. Save your servant who trusts you. You are my God.

3 Have pity on me, O Lord, because I call out to you all day long.

4 Give me joy, O Lord, because I lift my soul to you.

5 You, O Lord, are good and forgiving, full of mercy toward everyone who calls out to you.

6 Open your ears to my prayer, O LORD. Pay attention when I plead for mercy.

7 When I am in trouble, I call out to you because you answer me.

8 No god is like you, O Lord. No one can do what you do.

9 All the nations that you have made will bow in your presence, O Lord. They will honor you.

10 Indeed, you are great, a worker of miracles. You alone are God.

11 Teach me your way, O LORD, so that I may live in your truth. Focus my heart on fearing you.

12 I will give thanks to you with all my heart, O Lord my God. I will honor you forever

Psalms 86:2-12 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.