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Psalms 86

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Part of Book III📖 Psalms introduction

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1Bend down, O Lord, and hear my prayer; answer me, for I need your help. ✦ 2Protect me, for I am devoted to you. Save me, for I serve you and trust you. You are my God. ✦ 3Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I am calling on you constantly. ✦ 4Give me happiness, O Lord, for I give myself to you. ✦ 5O Lord, you are so good, so ready to forgive, so full of unfailing love for all who ask for your help. ✦ 6Listen closely to my prayer, O Lord; hear my urgent cry. ✦ 7I will call to you whenever I’m in trouble, and you will answer me. ✦ 8No pagan god is like you, O Lord. None can do what you do! ✦ 9All the nations you made will come and bow before you, Lord; they will praise your holy name. ✦ 10For you are great and perform wonderful deeds. You alone are God. ✦ 11Teach me your ways, O Lord, that I may live according to your truth! Grant me purity of heart, so that I may honor you. ✦ 12With all my heart I will praise you, O Lord my God. I will give glory to your name forever, ✦ 13for your love for me is very great. You have rescued me from the depths of death. ✦ 14O God, insolent people rise up against me; a violent gang is trying to kill me. You mean nothing to them. ✦ 15But you, O Lord, are a God of compassion and mercy, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness. ✦ 16Look down and have mercy on me. Give your strength to your servant; save me, the son of your servant. ✦ 17Send me a sign of your favor. Then those who hate me will be put to shame, for you, O Lord, help and comfort me. ✦

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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.

Resources, by level

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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