1 A PRAYER OF DAVID. Incline, O YHWH, Your ear, || Answer me, for I [am] poor and needy. 2 Keep my soul, for I [am] pious, || Save Your servant who is trusting to You, O You, my God. 3 Favor me, O Lord, for I call to You all the day. 4 Make glad the soul of Your servant, || For to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul. 5 For You, Lord, [are] good and forgiving, || And abundant in kindness to all calling You. 6 Hear, O YHWH, my prayer, || And attend to the voice of my supplications. 7 In a day of my distress I call You, || For You answer me. 8 There is none like You among the gods, O Lord, || And like Your works there are none. 9 All nations that You have made || Come and bow themselves before You, O Lord, || And give honor to Your Name. 10 For You [are] great, and doing wonders, || You [are] God alone. 11 Show me, O YHWH, Your way, || I walk in Your truth, || My heart rejoices to fear Your Name. 12 I confess You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, || And I honor Your Name for all time. 13 For Your kindness [is] great toward me, || And You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol. 14 O God, the proud have risen up against me, || And a company of the terrible sought my soul, || And have not placed You before them, 15 And You, O Lord, [are] God, merciful and gracious, || Slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth. 16 Look to me, and favor me, || Give Your strength to Your servant, || And give salvation to a son of Your handmaid. 17 Do with me a sign for good, || And those hating me see and are ashamed, || For You, O YHWH, have helped me, || Indeed, You have comforted me!
Psalms · Literal Standard Version
Psalm 86 Literal Standard Version
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- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
Cross references (17)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 31:2; Psalm 40:17; Daniel 9:18; Matthew 5:3; Psalm 34:6
- 2 Psalm 4:3; Psalm 25:2; Psalm 119:94; Psalm 31:1; Isaiah 26:3–4
- 3 Psalm 88:9; Psalm 57:1; Ephesians 6:18; Psalm 25:5; Psalm 56:1
- 4 Psalm 143:8; Psalm 25:1; Isaiah 66:13–14; Psalm 51:12; Isaiah 61:3
- 5 Psalm 145:8–9; Joel 2:13; Exodus 34:6; Psalm 103:8; Nehemiah 9:17
- 6 Psalm 5:1–2; Psalm 17:1; Psalm 55:1; Psalm 130:2
- 7 Jonah 2:2; Psalm 34:4–6; Psalm 17:6; Psalm 50:15; Hebrews 5:7
- 8 Exodus 15:11; Deuteronomy 3:24; Psalm 89:6; Daniel 3:29; Isaiah 40:25
- 9 Revelation 15:4; Isaiah 66:23; Psalm 66:4; Isaiah 2:2–4; Revelation 11:15
- 10 Isaiah 37:16; Mark 12:29; Psalm 72:18; 1 Corinthians 8:4; Exodus 15:11
- 11 Jeremiah 32:38–39; Psalm 25:4–5; Psalm 5:8; Psalm 143:8–10; Psalm 119:33
- 12 Deuteronomy 6:5; Psalm 146:1–2; Revelation 19:5–6; Romans 15:6; 1 Corinthians 10:31
- 13 Psalm 103:8–12; Psalm 116:8; Psalm 57:10; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; Luke 1:58
- 14 Psalm 54:3; Matthew 27:1–2; Psalm 14:4; Matthew 26:3–4; Psalm 36:1
- 15 Ephesians 2:4–7; Psalm 130:7; Psalm 103:8; Ephesians 1:7; Psalm 86:5
- 16 Ephesians 6:10; Philippians 4:13; Isaiah 40:29–31; Psalm 116:16; Psalm 25:16
- 17 Psalm 41:10–11; Judges 6:17; Psalm 71:20–21; Psalm 71:9–13; Psalm 40:1
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Its title is, "A Psalm for the end, to the sons of Core." Let us understand no other end than that of which the Apostle speaks: for, "Christ is the end of the law." Therefore when at the head of the title of the Psalm he placed the words, "for the end," he directed our heart to Christ.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
Thou seest this, O Lord, and keepest silence, "long-suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth," as Thou art.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
… so too, the Old Testament uses in the same way to correct the souls of the erring, by putting together in a way of comparison things that cannot be compared; as when it saith, "Among the gods there is none like unto Thee, O Lord:" and again, "There is no god like our God." Now some affirm, that Christ said …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
… I may say of it, think ye that in this "body which presseth down the soul," I shall be able to say (in order that I may speak to you something worthy of the subject), "O Lord, I have lifted up my soul unto Thee." May He assist me, may He lift it up with me.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
But let all of us be guided by Him to whom we say, "Lead me, O Lord, in Thy way, and I will walk in Thy truth."
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)