Worthy.Bible » KJV » Psalms » Chapter 86 » Verse 9

Psalms 86:9 King James Version (KJV)

9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.

Cross Reference

Revelation 15:4 KJV

Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.

Psalms 66:4 KJV

All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.

Isaiah 66:23 KJV

And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.

Psalms 102:15 KJV

So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.

Ephesians 1:12 KJV

That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

Romans 15:9 KJV

And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.

Romans 11:25 KJV

For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

Isaiah 43:7 KJV

Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.

Isaiah 2:2-4 KJV

And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Psalms 102:18 KJV

This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.

Psalms 22:27-31 KJV

All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among the nations. All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul. A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.

Revelation 20:3 KJV

And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

Revelation 11:15 KJV

And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

1 Peter 2:9 KJV

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;

Zechariah 14:9 KJV

And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

Isaiah 59:19 KJV

So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

Isaiah 11:9 KJV

They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

Psalms 72:19 KJV

And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.

Psalms 72:8 KJV

He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.

Psalms 67:7 KJV

God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.

Worthy.Bible » Commentaries » Keil & Delitzsch Commentary » Commentary on Psalms 86

Commentary on Psalms 86 Keil & Delitzsch Commentary


Introduction

Prayer of a Persecuted Saint

A Psalm “by David” which has points of contact with Psalms 85:1-13 (cf. Psalms 86:2, חסיד , with Psalms 85:9; Psalms 86:15, חסד ואמת , with Psalms 85:11) is here inserted between Korahitic Psalms: it can only be called a Psalm by David as having grown out of Davidic and other model passages. The writer cannot be compared for poetical capability either with David or with the authors of such Psalms as Ps 116 and Psalms 130:1-8. His Psalm is more liturgic than purely poetic, and it is also only entitled תּפּלּה , without bearing in itself any sign of musical designation. It possesses this characteristic, that the divine name אדני occurs seven times,

(Note: For the genuine reading in Psalms 86:4 (where Heidenheim reads יהוה ) and in Psalms 86:5 (where Nissel reads יהוה ) is also אדני (Bomberg, Hutter, etc.). Both the divine names in Psalms 86:4 and Psalms 86:5 belong to the 134 ודּאין . The divine name אדני , which is written and is not merely substituted for יהוה , is called in the language of the Masora ודאי (the true and real one).)

just as it occurs three times in Psalms 130:1-8, forming the start for a later, Adonajic style in imitation of the Elohimic.


Verses 1-5

The prayer to be heard runs like Psalms 55:3; and the statement of the ground on which it is based, Psalms 86:1 , word for word like Ps 40:18. It is then particularly expressed as a prayer for preservation ( שׁמרה , as in Psalms 119:167, although imperative, to be read shāmerah ; cf. Psalms 30:4 מיּרדי , Psalms 38:21 רדפי or רדפי , and what we have already observed on Psalms 16:1 שׁמרני ); for he is not only in need of God's help, but also because חסיד (Psalms 4:4; Psalms 16:10), i.e., united to Him in the bond of affection ( חסד , Hosea 6:4; Jeremiah 2:2), not unworthy of it. In Psalms 86:2 we hear the strains of Psalms 25:20; Psalms 31:7; in Psalms 86:3, of Psalms 57:2.: the confirmation in Psalms 86:4 is taken verbally from Psalms 25:1, cf. also Psalms 130:6. Here, what is said in Psalms 86:4 of this shorter Adonajic Psalm, Psalms 130:1-8, is abbreviated in the ἅπαξ γεγραμ . סלּח (root סל , של , to allow to hang loose, χαλᾶν , to give up, remittere ). The Lord is good ( טּוב ), i.e., altogether love, and for this very reason also ready to forgive, and great and rich in mercy for all who call upon Him as such. The beginning of the following group also accords with Psalms 130:1-8 in Psalms 86:2.


Verses 6-13

Here, too, almost everything is an echo of earlier language of the Psalms and of the Law; viz., Psalms 86:7 follows Psalms 17:6 and other passages; Psalms 86:8 is taken from Exodus 15:11, cf. Psalms 89:9, where, however, אלהים , gods, is avoided; Psalms 86:8 follows Deuteronomy 3:24; Psalms 86:9 follows Psalms 22:28; Psalms 86:11 is taken from Psalms 27:11; Psalms 86:11 from Psalms 26:3; Psalms 86:13, שׁאול תּחתּיּה from Deuteronomy 32:22, where instead of this it is תּחתּית , just as in Psalms 130:2 תּחנוּני (supplicatory prayer) instead of תּחנוּנותי (importunate supplications); and also Psalms 86:10 (cf. Psalms 72:18) is a doxological formula that was already in existence. The construction הקשׁיב בּ is the same as in Psalms 66:19. But although for the most part flowing on only in the language of prayer borrowed from earlier periods, this Psalm is, moreover, not without remarkable significance and beauty. With the confession of the incomparableness of the Lord is combined the prospect of the recognition of the incomparable One throughout the nations of the earth. This clear unallegorical prediction of the conversion of the heathen is the principal parallel to Revelation 15:4. “All nations, which Thou hast made” - they have their being from Thee; and although they have forgotten it (vid., Psalms 9:18), they will nevertheless at last come to recognise it. כּל־גּוים , since the article is wanting, are nations of all tribes (countries and nationalities); cf. Jeremiah 16:16 with Psalms 22:18; Tobit 13:11, ἔθνη πολλά , with ibid . Psalms 14:6, πάντα τὰ ἔθνη . And how weightily brief and charming is the petition in Psalms 86:11 : uni cor meum, ut timeat nomen tuum ! Luther has rightly departed from the renderings of the lxx, Syriac, and Vulgate: laetetur ( יחדּ from חדה ). The meaning, however, is not so much “keep my heart near to the only thing,” as “direct all its powers and concentrate them on the one thing.” The following group shows us what is the meaning of the deliverance out of the hell beneath ( שׁאול תּחתּיּה , like ארץ תּחתּית , the earth beneath, the inner parts of the earth, Ezekiel 31:14.), for which the poet promises beforehand to manifest his thankfulness ( כּי , Psalms 86:13, as in Ps 56:14).


Verses 14-17

The situation is like that in the Psalms of the time of Saul. The writer is a persecuted one, and in constant peril of his life. He has taken Psalms 86:14 out of the Elohimic Psalms 54:5, and retained the Elohim as a proper name of God (cf. on the other hand Psalms 86:8, Psalms 86:10); he has, however, altered זרים to זרים , which here, as in Isaiah 13:11 (cf. however, ibid . Psalms 25:5), is the alternating word to עריצים . In Psalms 86:15 he supports his petition that follows by Jahve's testimony concerning Himself in Exodus 34:6. The appellation given to himself by the poet in Psalms 86:16 recurs in Psalms 116:16 (cf. Wisd. 9:5). The poet calls himself “the son of Thy handmaid” as having been born into the relation to Him of servant; it is a relationship that has come to him by birth. How beautifully does the Adonaj come in here for the seventh time! He is even from his mother's womb the servant of the sovereign Lord, from whose omnipotence he can therefore also look for a miraculous interposition on his behalf. A “token for good” is a special dispensation, from which it becomes evident to him that God is kindly disposed towards him. לטובה as in the mouth of Nehemiah, Nehemiah 5:19; Nehemiah 13:31; of Ezra 8:22; and also even in Jeremiah and earlier. ויבשׁוּ is just as parenthetical as in Isaiah 26:11.