the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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Psalms 86:1
A prayer of David.
Bend down, O Lord , and hear my prayer; answer me, for I need your help.Bible Study Resources
Concordances:
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Incline Your ear, O Yahweh, and answer me;For I am afflicted and needy.
A Prayer of David.
Incline Your ear, O Lord , and answer me; For I am afflicted and needy.Bow downe thine eare O God, and heare me: for I am poore and in miserie.
A Prayer of David.
Incline thine ear, Jehovah, answer me; for I am afflicted and needy.Bow down Your ear, O LORD, hear me; For I am poor and needy.
A Prayer of David O Jehovah, bow down Your ear, answer me, for I am poor and needy.
A prayer of David.
I am a poor, helpless man. Lord , please listen to me and answer my prayer![A prayer of Dauid.] Bow downe thine eare, O Lord, heare me: for I am poore & needy.
Bow down thine ear, O Lord , hear me: for I am poor and needy.
Bowe downe thine eare (o LORDE) and heare me, for I am cofortles and poore.
A David Psalm Bend an ear, God ; answer me. I'm one miserable wretch! Keep me safe—haven't I lived a good life? Help your servant—I'm depending on you! You're my God; have mercy on me. I count on you from morning to night. Give your servant a happy life; I put myself in your hands! You're well-known as good and forgiving, bighearted to all who ask for help. Pay attention, God , to my prayer; bend down and listen to my cry for help. Every time I'm in trouble I call on you, confident that you'll answer.
Incline Your ear, O LORD, and answer me, For I am distressed and needy [I long for Your help].
A Prayer of David.
Bow down thine ear, O Jehovah, and answer me; For I am poor and needy.Let your ears be open to my voice, O Lord, and give me an answer; for I am poor and in need.
A Prayer of David Bow down your ear, O Yahweh, and answer me; For I am poor and needy.
A Prayer of David. Bow down thy ear, O LORD, hear me: for I [am] poor and needy.
A prayer of David.
Listen O Lord ! Answer me! For I am oppressed and needy.(A prayer by David.)
Please listen, Lord , and answer my prayer! I am poor and helpless.A prayer of David: Listen, Adonai , and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
A prayer of Dauid. Incline thine eare, O Lord, and heare me: for I am poore and needy.
INCLINE thine ear, O LORD; hear me, for I am poor and needy.
A Prayer of David.
Hear, O Lord, and answer me. For I am suffering and in need.
O Lord, incline thine ear, and hearken to me; for I am poor and needy.
A Prayer Of David. Bow down thine ear, O LORD, and answer me; for I am poor and needy.
A Prayer of David. Incline Your ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
A Prayer of David.
Incline your ear, O Lord , and answer me, for I am poor and needy.Bow down, O Yahweh, thine ear - answer me, For, oppressed and needy, am I;
(85-1) <A prayer for David himself.> Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear me: for I am needy and poor.
A prayer of David.
Incline, O Yahweh, your ear and answer me, because I am poor and needy.A Prayer of David.
Incline your ear, O Lord , and answer me, for I am poor and needy.Incline Your ear, LORD, and answer me; For I am afflicted and needy.
A prayer of David.
Lord , listen to me and answer me. I am poor and helpless.Listen to me, Lord , and answer me, for I am helpless and weak.
A Davidic prayer.
Listen, Lord , and answer me, for I am poor and needy.The `title of the fyue and eiytetithe salm. The preier of Dauid. Lord, bowe doun thin eere, and here me; for Y am nedi and pore.
A Prayer of David. Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, Answer me, for I [am] poor and needy.
A Prayer of David. Incline thy ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
Contextual Overview
A prayer of David.
Bend down, O Lord , and hear my prayer; answer me, for I need your help. 2 Protect me, for I am devoted to you. Save me, for I serve you and trust you. You are my God. 3 Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I am calling on you constantly. 4 Give me happiness, O Lord, for I give myself to you. 5 O Lord, you are so good, so ready to forgive, so full of unfailing love for all who ask for your help. 6 Listen closely to my prayer, O Lord ; hear my urgent cry. 7 I will call to you whenever I'm in trouble, and you will answer me.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Bow: Psalms 31:2, Isaiah 37:17, Daniel 9:18
for I am: Psalms 10:14, Psalms 34:6, Psalms 40:17, Psalms 72:12-14, Psalms 102:17, Psalms 119:22, Psalms 140:12, Isaiah 66:2, Matthew 5:3, Luke 4:18, James 1:9, James 1:10, James 2:5
Reciprocal: Psalms 5:1 - Give Psalms 17:1 - General Psalms 109:22 - For I Psalms 119:58 - I entreated Habakkuk 3:1 - prayer
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Bow down thine ear, O Lord, hear me,.... This is spoken of God after the manner of men, who, when they listen and attentively hearken to what is said to them, stoop and bow the head, and incline the ear; and it denotes condescension in the Lord, who humbles himself as to look upon men, so to bow down the ear and hearken to them: this favour is granted to the saints, to whom he is a God hearing and answering prayer, and which Christ, as man and Mediator, enjoyed; see Hebrews 5:7,
for I am poor and needy; weak and feeble, destitute and distressed, and so wanted help and assistance; and which carries in it an argument or reason enforcing the above petition; for the Lord has a regard to the poor and needy; see Psalms 6:2. This may be understood literally, it being the common case of the people of God, who are generally the poor and needy of this world, whom God chooses, calls, and makes his own; and so was David when he fled from Saul, being often in want of temporal mercies, as appears by his application to Ahimelech and Nabal for food; and having nothing, as Kimchi observes, to support him, but what his friends, and the men of Judah, privately helped him to; and the character well agrees with Christ, whose case this was; see 2 Corinthians 8:9. Moreover, it may be taken in a spiritual sense; all men are poor and needy, though not sensible of it; good men are poor in spirit, are sensible of their spiritual poverty, and apply to the Lord, and to the throne of his grace, for the supply of their need; and such an one was David, even when he was king of Israel, as well as at this time, Psalms 40:17, and may be applied to Christ; especially when destitute of his Father's gracious presence, and was forsaken by him and all his friends, Matthew 27:46.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Bow down thine ear, O Lord, hear me - See the notes at Psalms 5:1.
For I am poor and needy - This is the reason here assigned why God should hear him. It is not a plea of merit. It is not that there was any claim on God in the fact that he was a poor and needy man - a sinner helpless and dependent, or that it would be any injustice if God should not hear, for a sinner has no claim to favor; but it is that this was a condition in which the aid of God was needed, and in which it was proper or appropriate for God to hear prayer, and to render help. We may always make our helplessness, our weakness, our poverty, our need, a ground of appeal to God; not as a claim of justice, but as a case in which he will glorify himself by a gracious interposition. It is also to be remarked that it is a matter of unspeakable thankfulness that the “poor and needy” may call upon God; that they will be as welcome as any class of people; that there is no condition of poverty and want so low that we are debarred from the privilege of approaching One who has infinite resources, and who is as willing to help as he is able.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
PSALM LXXXVI
The psalmist prays to God for support, from a conviction that
he is merciful, good, ready to forgive, and that there is none
like him, 1-8;
all nations shall bow before him because of his wondrous works,
9, 10;
he prays to be instructed, and promises to praise God for his
great mercy, 11-13;
describes his enemies, and appeals to God, 14-16;
begs a token for God, that his enemies may be confounded, 17.
NOTES ON PSALM LXXXVI
The title attributes this Psalm to David; and in this all the Versions agree: but in its structure it is the same with those attributed to the sons of Korah; and was probably made during the captivity. It is a very suitable prayer for a person labouring under affliction from persecution or calumny.
Verse Psalms 86:1. Bow down thine ear — Spoken after the manner of men: I am so low, and so weak, that, unless thou stoop to me, my voice cannot reach thee.
Poor and needy. — I am afflicted, and destitute of the necessaries of life.
