English Standard Version
Psalms 86:1
1Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
Psalms 86:1 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Bow down thine ear, O Lord, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
- New International Version (NIV)Hear me, Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Bow down Your ear, O Lord, hear me; For I am poor and needy.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Bend down, O Lord, and hear my prayer; answer me, for I need your help.
Context of Psalms 86:1
Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. 2Preserve my life, for I am godly; save your servant, who trusts in you—you are my God. 3Be gracious to me, O Lord, for to you do I cry all the day.
Read all of Psalms 86Psalms 86:1 word by word
הַטֵּֽה־יְהוָ֣ה אָזְנְךָ֣ עֲנֵ֑נִי כִּֽי־עָנִ֖י וְאֶבְי֣וֹן אָֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 86:1
- Psalms 102:1Hear my prayer, O Lord; let my cry come to you!
- Psalms 142:1With my voice I cry out to the Lord; with my voice I plead for mercy to the Lord.
- Psalms 31:2Incline your ear to me; rescue me speedily! Be a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me!
- Isaiah 37:17Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear; open your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.
- Daniel 9:18O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy.
- Psalms 10:14But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.
- Psalms 34:6This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.
- Psalms 40:17As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God!
- Psalms 72:12For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper.
- Psalms 102:17he regards the prayer of the destitute and does not despise their prayer.
- Psalms 119:22Take away from me scorn and contempt, for I have kept your testimonies.
- Psalms 140:12I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.
- Isaiah 66:2All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.
- Matthew 5:3"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
- Luke 4:18"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
- James 1:9Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation,
Commentaries on Psalms 86:1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1Bow 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.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1Bow down thine ear, O Lord, hear me - See the notes at Psalm 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…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1The psalmist pleads his earnestness, and the mercy of God, as reasons why his prayer should be heard. (1-7) He renews his requests for help and comfort. (8-17) Verses 1-7 Our poverty and wretchedness, when felt, powerfully plead in our behalf at the throne of grace. The best self-preservation is to commit ourselves to God's keeping. I am one whom thou favourest, hast set apart for thyself, and made partaker of sanctifying grace. It is a great…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1This is the only Psalm connected to David in the third book.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-171-2. poor and needy--a suffering child of God, as in Psa 10:12, 17; 18:27. I am holy--or, "godly," as in Psa 4:3; 85:8.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 86
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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