
Text -- Psalms 86:13 (NET)




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Wesley -> Psa 86:13
From extreme dangers and miseries.
JFB -> Psa 86:13-14
JFB: Psa 86:13-14 - -- The reason: God had delivered him from death and the power of insolent, violent, and godless persecutors (Psa 54:3; Eze 8:12).
Clarke -> Psa 86:13
Clarke: Psa 86:13 - -- Thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell - This must mean more than the grave; a hell below hell - a place of perdition for the soul, as the...
Thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell - This must mean more than the grave; a hell below hell - a place of perdition for the soul, as the grave is a place of corruption for the body.
Calvin -> Psa 86:13
Calvin: Psa 86:13 - -- In the 13th verse, he sets forth the reason of this, which is, because, in delivering him, God had given a singular and remarkable proof of his mercy...
In the 13th verse, he sets forth the reason of this, which is, because, in delivering him, God had given a singular and remarkable proof of his mercy. To place in a stronger light the greatness of this benefit, he describes the dangers from which he had been delivered, by the expression, the lower grave; as if he had said, I have not been held down by one death only, but have been thrust down into the lowest depths of the grave, so that my circumstances required the hand of God to be stretched out to me in a wonderful manner. By the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we are delivered from a still deeper abyss of death; and such being the case, our ingratitude will be inexcusable, unless each of us exercise himself to the utmost of his power in celebrating this deliverance. If David so highly magnified the name of God merely on account of the prolongation of his life for a short time, what praises are due for this unparalleled redemption by which we are drawn from the depths of hell and elevated to heaven? The Papists attempt to found an argument on this passage in support of their doctrine of Purgatory, as if that were an upper hell, while there was another lower; 490 but this argument is too rotten to stand in need of refutation.
TSK -> Psa 86:13
TSK: Psa 86:13 - -- great : Psa 57:10, Psa 103:8-12, Psa 108:4; Luk 1:58
and thou : Psa 16:10, Psa 56:13, Psa 88:6, Psa 116:8; Job 33:18, Job 33:22, Job 33:24, Job 33:28;...

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Barnes -> Psa 86:13
Barnes: Psa 86:13 - -- For great is thy mercy toward me - In respect to me; or, Thou hast manifested great mercy to me; to wit, in past times. He makes use of this no...
For great is thy mercy toward me - In respect to me; or, Thou hast manifested great mercy to me; to wit, in past times. He makes use of this now as an argument or reason why God should interpose again.
(a) He had shown on former occasions that he had power to save;
(b) the fact that he had thus treated him as his friend was a reason why he should now befriend him.
And thou hast delivered my soul - My life. The meaning is, that he had kept him alive in times of imminent danger. At the same time David could say, as every child of God can say, that God had delivered his soul in the strict and proper sense of the term - from sin, and death, and hell itself.
From the lowest hell - Margin, grave; Hebrew,
Poole -> Psa 86:13
Poole: Psa 86:13 - -- My soul my person or life, as in the next verse.
From the lowest hell either,
1. From hell properly so called. Or rather,
2. From extreme and des...
My soul my person or life, as in the next verse.
From the lowest hell either,
1. From hell properly so called. Or rather,
2. From extreme and desperate dangers and miseries, by comparing this with Deu 32:22 , and with Psa 88:6 . Thou hast laid me in the lowest (the same word in the Hebrew which is here) pit ; where by the pit he means, as is evident and confessed, the grave , which is commonly called sheol , the word here used.
Gill -> Psa 86:13
Gill: Psa 86:13 - -- For great is thy mercy toward me,.... Both in things temporal and spiritual; an instance of which follows:
and thou hast delivered my soul from the...
For great is thy mercy toward me,.... Both in things temporal and spiritual; an instance of which follows:
and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell; from a very distressed and disconsolate condition, being almost in despair, under a deep sense of sin, and a fearful apprehension of the wrath of God, as, particularly, when he was charged by Nathan; or from hell itself, and the severest punishment in it; from the second and eternal death, which every man is deserving of, and are only delivered from by the grace of God, and blood of Christ: this shows the sense the psalmist had of the just demerit of sin, and his thankfulness for deliverance from it; see Psa 56:13. Kimchi interprets it of the grave; but says, there are some that interpret it of the judgment, or condemnation of hell: such who have escaped great dangers in long and perilous journeys, or have been delivered from threatening diseases, are said to be saved from hell r.

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TSK Synopsis -> Psa 86:1-17
TSK Synopsis: Psa 86:1-17 - --1 David strengthens his prayer by the consciousness of his religion;5 by the goodness and power of God.11 He desires the continuance of former grace.1...
MHCC -> Psa 86:8-17
MHCC: Psa 86:8-17 - --Our God alone possesses almighty power and infinite love. Christ is the way and the truth. And the believing soul will be more desirous to be taught t...
Matthew Henry -> Psa 86:8-17
Matthew Henry: Psa 86:8-17 - -- David is here going on in his prayer. I. He gives glory to God; for we ought in our prayers to praise him, ascribing kingdom, power, and glory, to h...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Psa 86:6-13
Keil-Delitzsch: Psa 86:6-13 - --
Here, too, almost everything is an echo of earlier language of the Psalms and of the Law; viz., Psa 86:7 follows Psa 17:6 and other passages; Psa 8...
Constable: Psa 73:1--89:52 - --I. Book 3: chs 73--89
A man or men named Asaph wrote 17 of the psalms in this book (Pss. 73-83). Other writers w...

Constable: Psa 86:1-17 - --Psalm 86
On the basis of God's goodness David asked Him to demonstrate His strength by opposing the prou...
