Salmos 86:2

Almeida Revista e Corrigida

Guarda a minha alma, pois sou santo; Deus meu, salva o teu servo, que em ti confia.

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
Guarda a minha alma, pois sou santo: Deus meu, salva o teu servo, que em ti confia.

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
Preserva a minha alma, pois eu sou piedoso; tu, Deus meu, salva o teu servo que em ti confia.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Preserve: Psalms 4:3, Psalms 37:28, Psalms 119:94, 1 Samuel 2:9, John 10:27-29, John 17:11, 1 Peter 5:3-5

holy: or, one whom thou favourest, Psalms 18:19, Deuteronomy 7:7, Deuteronomy 7:8, Romans 9:18, Romans 9:23, Romans 9:24

save: Psalms 119:124, Psalms 119:125, Psalms 143:12, John 12:26

trusteth: Psalms 13:5, Psalms 16:1, Psalms 31:1, Isaiah 26:3, Isaiah 26:4, Romans 15:12, Romans 15:13, Ephesians 1:12, Ephesians 1:13

Reciprocal: Romans 6:22 - become

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Preserve my soul,.... Or life, which Saul sought after; and this prayer was heard: David was often remarkably preserved by the Lord from his attempts upon him; and so was the soul or life of Christ preserved in his infancy from Herod's malice; in the wilderness from wild beasts, and from perishing with hunger; and often from the designs of the Jews, to take away his life before his time; and he was supported in death, preserved from corruption in the grave, and raised from thence: instances there are of his praying for the preservation of his life, with submission to the will of God, in which he was heard,

Matthew 26:39. The Lord is not only the preserver of the lives of men in a temporal sense, but he is the preserver of the souls of his people, their more noble part, whose redemption is precious; he keeps them from the evil of sin, and preserves them safe to his kingdom and glory; yea, their whole soul, body, and spirit, are preserved by him blameless, unto the coming of Christ:

for I am holy; quite innocent, as to the crime that was laid to his charge by Saul and his courtiers; or was kind, beneficent, and merciful, to others, and to such God shows himself merciful, they obtain mercy: or was favoured of God, to whom he had been bountiful, on whom he had bestowed many mercies and blessings; and therefore desires and hopes that, to the rest of favours, this of preservation might be added; or, as he was a sanctified person, and God had begun his work of grace in him, he therefore entreats the Lord would preserve him, and perfect his own work in him: some, as Aben Ezra observes, would have the sense to be,

"keep my soul until I am holy:''

so Arama interprets it,

"keep me unto the world to come, where all are holy:''

the character of an Holy One eminently and perfectly agrees with Christ, as well as the petition; see Psalms 16:1.

O thou, my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee; both temporally and spiritually: the arguments are taken from covenant interest in God, which is a strong one; from relation to him as a servant, not by nature only, but by grace; and from his trust and confidence in him; all which, as well as the petition, agree with Christ; see

Psalms 22:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Preserve my soul - Preserve, or keep, my life; for so the word rendered soul means in this place, as it does commonly in the Scriptures.

For I am holy - Margin, “One whom thou favorest.” The Hebrew word - חסיד châsı̂yd - means properly, benevolent, kind; then, good, merciful, gracious; and then pious, godly. Psalms 30:4; Psalms 31:23; Psalms 37:28. The ground of the plea here is, that he was a friend of God; and that it was proper on that account to look to him for protection. He does not say that he was holy in such a sense that he had a claim on that account to the favor of God, or that his personal holiness was a ground of salvation; but the idea is, that he had devoted himself to God, and that it was, therefore, proper to look to him for his protection in the time of danger. A child looks to a parent for protection, because he is a child; a citizen looks to the protection of the laws, because he is a citizen; and so the people of God may look to him for protection, because they are his people. In all this there is no plea of merit, but there is the recognition of what is proper in the case, and what may he expected and hoped for.

Save thy servant - Save him from threatening danger and from death.

That trusteth in thee - Because I trust or confide in thee. I go nowhere else for protection; I rely on no one else. I look to thee alone, and I do this with entire confidence. A man who does this has a right to look to God for protection, and to expect that God will interpose in his behalf.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 86:2. Preserve my soul — Keep it as in a strong place.

For I am holy — כי חשיד אני ki chasid ani, for I am merciful. The spirit of this prayer is,

"The mercy I to others show,

That mercy show to me!"

Save thy servant — I have long taken thee as my Master and Lord; I receive the word from thy mouth, and obey thee.