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Psalms 86

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Part of Book III📖 Psalms introduction

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1Bow down Your ear, O Lord, hear me; For I am poor and needy. ✦ 2Preserve my life, for I am holy; You are my God; Save Your servant who trusts in You! ✦ 3Be merciful to me, O Lord, For I cry to You all day long. ✦ 4Rejoice the soul of Your servant, For to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul. ✦ 5For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You. ✦ 6Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer; And attend to the voice of my supplications. ✦ 7In the day of my trouble I will call upon You, For You will answer me. ✦ 8Among the gods there is none like You, O Lord; Nor are there any works like Your works. ✦ 9All nations whom You have made Shall come and worship before You, O Lord, And shall glorify Your name. ✦ 10For You are great, and do wondrous things; You alone are God. ✦ 11Teach me Your way, O Lord; I will walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your name. ✦ 12I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, And I will glorify Your name forevermore. ✦ 13For great is Your mercy toward me, And You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol. ✦ 14O God, the proud have risen against me, And a mob of violent men have sought my life, And have not set You before them. ✦ 15But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, Longsuffering and abundant in mercy and truth. ✦ 16Oh, turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give Your strength to Your servant, And save the son of Your maidservant. ✦ 17Show me a sign for good, That those who hate me may see it and be ashamed, Because You, Lord, have helped me and comforted me. ✦

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Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Where this chapter connects

Ps 119 ·12Ps 25 ·7Ps 145 ·5Rom 15 ·5Ps 130 ·5Ps 102 ·4Ps 72 ·4Ps 10 ·4

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 86 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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Lay

  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

Pastoral

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

  • VideoWatch teaching on Psalms 86YouTube · Lay · Free

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 86David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 86Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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