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Psalms 86

1 David sore afflicted and forsaken of all, prayeth fervently for deliverance: sometimes rehearing his miseries, 5 Sometimes the mercies received, 11 Desiring also to be instructed of the Lord, that he maie fear him & glorify his Name. He complaineth also of his adversaries, and requireth to be delivered from them.
¶ A Prayer of David.
1.Incline athine ear, ô Lord, and hear me: for I am poor and needie.
2.Preserve thou my soul, for I am bmerciful: my God, save thou thy servant, that trusteth in thee.
3.Be merciful unto me, ô Lord: for I ccry upon thee continually.
4.Rejoyce the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, ô Lord, do I lift up my soul.
5.For thou, Lord, art good and dmerciful, and of great kindness unto all them, that call upon thee.
6.Give ear, Lord, unto my prayer, and ehearken to the voice of my supplication.
7.In the day of my trouble I wil call upon thee: for thou hearest me.
8.Among the gods there is none like thee, ô Lord, and there fis none that can do like thy works.
9.All nations, whom thou hast made, shal come and gworship before thee, ô Lord, and shal glorify thy Name.
10.For thou art great and doest wonderous things: thou art God alone.
11.hTeach me thy way, ô Lord, and I wil walk in thy truth: knit mine heart unto thee, that I maie fear thy Name.
12.I wil praise thee, ô Lord my God, with all mine heart: yea, I will glorify thy Name for ever.
13.For great is thy mercie toward me, and thou hast delivered my soul from ithe lowest grave.
14.O God, the proud are risen against me, & the assemblies of violent men have ksought my soul, and have not set thee before them.
15.But thou, ô Lord, art a pitiful God and merciful, slow to anger and great in kindness and truth.
16.Turn unto me, and have mercy upon me: give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the lson of thine handmaid.
17.Shewe a token of thy goodness toward me, that they which hate me, maie see it, and be ashamed, because thou, ô Lord, hast holpen me and comforted me.

Notes

1-a.
David persecuted of Saul, thus prayed, leaving the same to the Church as a monument, how to seek redress against their miseries.
2-b.
I am not enemy to them, but pity them, though they be cruel toward me.
3-c.
Which was a sure token that he believed that God would deliver him.
5-d.
He does confess that God is good to all, but only merciful to poor sinners.
6-e.
By crying and calling continually, he shows how we may not be weary, though God grant not forthwith our request, but that we must earnestly, and often call upon him.
8-f.
He condemns all idols, forasmuch as they can do no works to declare that they are gods.
9-g.
This proves that David prayed in the name of Christ the Messiah, of whose kingdom he does here prophecy.
11-h.
He confesses himself ignorant till God had taught him, and his heart variable and separate from God, till God join it to him and confirm it in his obedience.
13-i.
That is, from most great danger of death: out of the which none, but only the mighty hand of God, could deliver him.
14-k.
He shows that there can be no moderation nor equity, where proud tyrants reign and that the lack of God’s fear is as a privilege to all vice and cruelty.
16-l.
He boasts not of his own virtues, but confesses that God of his free goodness has ever been merciful unto him and given him power against his enemies, as to one of his own household.