13 For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
Yahweh is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness. He will not always accuse; Neither will he stay angry forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor repaid us for our iniquities. For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him. As far as the east is from the west, So far has he removed our transgressions from us.
Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her, and they rejoiced with her.
Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
You have laid me in the lowest pit, In the darkest depths.
Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, And his life to the destroyers.
Then God is gracious to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.'
For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, Neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
For you have delivered my soul from death, And prevented my feet from falling, That I may walk before God in the light of the living.
For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
For you have delivered my soul from death, My eyes from tears, And my feet from falling.
For you threw me into the depths, In the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me. I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; Yet I will look again toward your holy temple.' The waters surrounded me, Even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head. I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: Yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.
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Commentary on Psalms 86 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 86
This psalm is entitled "a prayer of David;' probably it was not penned upon any particular occasion, but was a prayer he often used himself, and recommended to others for their use, especially in a day of affliction. Many think that David penned this prayer as a type of Christ, "who in the days of his flesh offered up strong cries,' Heb. 5:7. David, in this prayer (according to the nature of that duty),
In singing this we must, as David did, lift up our souls to God with application.
A Prayer of David.
Psa 86:1-7
This psalm was published under the title of a prayer of David; not as if David sung all his prayers, but into some of his songs he inserted prayers; for a psalm will admit the expressions of any pious and devout affections. But it is observable how very plain the language of this psalm is, and how little there is in it of poetic flights or figures, in comparison with some other psalms; for the flourishes of wit are not the proper ornaments of prayer. Now here we may observe,
Psa 86:8-17
David is here going on in his prayer.