New King James Version
Psalms 86:1
1Bow down Your ear, O Lord, hear 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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer 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
Bow down Your ear, O Lord, hear me; For I am poor and needy. 2Preserve my life, for I am holy; You are my God; Save Your servant who trusts in You! 3Be merciful to me, O Lord, For I cry to You all day long.
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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, And let my cry come to You.
- Psalms 142:1I cry out to the Lord with my voice; With my voice to the Lord I make my supplication.
- Psalms 31:2Bow down Your ear to me, Deliver me speedily; Be my rock of refuge, A fortress of defense 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 reproach the living God.
- Daniel 9:18O my God, incline Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our desolations, and the city which is called by Your name; for we do not present our supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great mercies.
- Psalms 10:14But You have seen, for You observe trouble and grief, To repay it by Your hand. The helpless commits himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
- Psalms 34:6This poor man cried out, and the Lord heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles.
- Psalms 40:17But I am poor and needy; Yet the Lord thinks upon me. You are my help and my deliverer; Do not delay, O my God.
- Psalms 72:12For He will deliver the needy when he cries, The poor also, and him who has no helper.
- Psalms 102:17He shall regard the prayer of the destitute, And shall not despise their prayer.
- Psalms 119:22Remove from me reproach and contempt, For I have kept Your testimonies.
- Psalms 140:12I know that the Lord will maintain The cause of the afflicted, And justice for the poor.
- Isaiah 66:2For all those things My hand has made, And all those things exist,” Says the Lord. “But on this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, And who 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 preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
- James 1:9Let the lowly brother glory 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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