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Selected Verse: Psalms 86:6 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 86:6 |
King James |
Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Give ear, O Lord, unto my prayer ... - See the notes at Psa 5:1. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| Here, too, almost everything is an echo of earlier language of the Psalms and of the Law; viz., Psa 86:7 follows Psa 17:6 and other passages; Psa 86:8 is taken from Exo 15:11, cf. Psa 89:9, where, however, אלהים, gods, is avoided; Psa 86:8 follows Deu 3:24; Psa 86:9 follows Psa 22:28; Psa 86:11 is taken from Psa 27:11; Psa 86:11 from Psa 26:3; Psa 86:13, שׁאול תּחתּיּה from Deu 32:22, where instead of this it is תּחתּית, just as in Psa 130:2 תּחנוּני (supplicatory prayer) instead of תּחנוּנותי (importunate supplications); and also Psa 86:10 (cf. Psa 72:18) is a doxological formula that was already in existence. The construction הקשׁיב בּ is the same as in Psa 66:19. But although for the most part flowing on only in the language of prayer borrowed from earlier periods, this Psalm is, moreover, not without remarkable significance and beauty. With the confession of the incomparableness of the Lord is combined the prospect of the recognition of the incomparable One throughout the nations of the earth. This clear unallegorical prediction of the conversion of the heathen is the principal parallel to Rev 15:4. "All nations, which Thou hast made" - they have their being from Thee; and although they have forgotten it (vid., Psa 9:18), they will nevertheless at last come to recognise it. כּל־גּוים, since the article is wanting, are nations of all tribes (countries and nationalities); cf. Jer 16:16 with Psa 22:18; Tobit 13:11, ἔθνη πολλά, with ibid. Psa 14:6, πάντα τὰ ἔθνη. And how weightily brief and charming is the petition in Psa 86:11 : uni cor meum, ut timeat nomen tuum! Luther has rightly departed from the renderings of the lxx, Syriac, and Vulgate: laetetur (יחדּ from חדה). The meaning, however, is not so much "keep my heart near to the only thing," as "direct all its powers and concentrate them on the one thing." The following group shows us what is the meaning of the deliverance out of the hell beneath (שׁאול תּחתּיּה, like ארץ תּחתּית, the earth beneath, the inner parts of the earth, Eze 31:14.), for which the poet promises beforehand to manifest his thankfulness (כּי, Psa 86:13, as in Ps 56:14). |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Give ear, O Lord - Attend to me. Millions call upon thee for help and mercy; but who has more need than myself? That the psalmist was deeply in earnest, his conduct shows.
1. He prayed.
2. His prayer was vehement; he lifted up his voice.
3. He continued in prayer; he abounded in supplications. |
1 To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Psalm of David. Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
13 For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
14 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
11 Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
4 Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.
19 But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things.
10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.
2 Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.
22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
13 For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
3 For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.
11 Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.
11 Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
28 For the kingdom is the LORD'S: and he is the governor among the nations.
9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
24 O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?
8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.
9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
11 Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.
6 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.
7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.