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Psalms 86:12-16
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With all my heart I will praise you, O Lord my God. I will give glory to your name forever,
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for your love for me is very great. You have rescued me from the depths of death.
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O God, insolent people rise up against me; a violent gang is trying to kill me. You mean nothing to them.
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But you, O Lord, are a God of compassion and mercy, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness.
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Look down and have mercy on me. Give your strength to your servant; save me, the son of your servant.
Psalms 86:12-16 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.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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- [a]. Hebrew of Sheol.
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