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Text -- Psalms 86:13 (NET)

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86:13 For you will extend your great loyal love to me, and will deliver my life from the depths of Sheol.
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 · Sheol the place of the dead


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Salvation | Hell | Hades | God | ESCHATOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT | David | DECEASE, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND APOCYPHRA | Afflictions and Adversities | more
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Wesley: Psa 86:13 - -- From extreme dangers and miseries.

From extreme dangers and miseries.

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).

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 - -- 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 - -- 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 - -- 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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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

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, שׁאול she 'ôl ; Greek, ᾅδης Hadēs . See the word explained in the notes at Isa 14:9. Compare the notes at Job 10:21-22. The word rendered "lowest"means simply under, or beneath: the grave or hades beneath. The idea of lowest, or the superlative degree, is not necessarily implied in the word. The idea of the grave as deep, or as under us, however, is implied, and the psalmist means to say that he had been saved from that deep dwelling-place - from the abode of departed spirits, to which the dead descend under ground. The meaning is, that he had been kept alive; but the greatness of the mercy is designed to be set forth by having before the mind a vivid idea of the darkness, the horror, and the gloom of the world to which the dead descend, and where they dwell.

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 - -- 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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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 86:13 Or “lower Sheol.”

Geneva Bible: Psa 86:13 For great [is] thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from ( i ) the lowest hell. ( i ) That is, from most great danger of death: out o...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

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 - --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 - -- 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 - -- 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...

Constable: Psa 86:11-13 - --2. A request for greater understanding 86:11-13 David's request to know God's way more fully is ...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Psalms (Book Introduction) The Hebrew title of this book is Tehilim ("praises" or "hymns"), for a leading feature in its contents is praise, though the word occurs in the title ...

JFB: Psalms (Outline) ALEPH. (Psa 119:1-8). This celebrated Psalm has several peculiarities. It is divided into twenty-two parts or stanzas, denoted by the twenty-two let...

TSK: Psalms (Book Introduction) The Psalms have been the general song of the universal Church; and in their praise, all the Fathers have been unanimously eloquent. Men of all nation...

TSK: Psalms 86 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Psa 86:1, David strengthens his prayer by the consciousness of his religion; Psa 86:5, by the goodness and power of God; Psa 86:11, He de...

Poole: Psalms (Book Introduction) OF PSALMS THE ARGUMENT The divine authority of this Book of PSALMS is so certain and evident, that it was never questioned in the church; which b...

MHCC: Psalms (Book Introduction) David was the penman of most of the psalms, but some evidently were composed by other writers, and the writers of some are doubtful. But all were writ...

MHCC: Psalms 86 (Chapter Introduction) (Psa 86:1-7) The psalmist pleads his earnestness, and the mercy of God, as reasons why his prayer should be heard. (Psa 86:8-17) He renews his reques...

Matthew Henry: Psalms (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Book of Psalms We have now before us one of the choicest and most excellent parts of all the Old Te...

Matthew Henry: Psalms 86 (Chapter Introduction) 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 ...

Constable: Psalms (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book in the Hebrew Bible is Tehillim, which means...

Constable: Psalms (Outline) Outline I. Book 1: chs. 1-41 II. Book 2: chs. 42-72 III. Book 3: chs. 73...

Constable: Psalms Psalms Bibliography Allen, Ronald B. "Evidence from Psalm 89." In A Case for Premillennialism: A New Consensus,...

Haydock: Psalms (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF PSALMS. INTRODUCTION. The Psalms are called by the Hebrew, Tehillim; that is, hymns of praise. The author, of a great part of ...

Gill: Psalms (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PSALMS The title of this book may be rendered "the Book of Praises", or "Hymns"; the psalm which our Lord sung at the passover is c...

Gill: Psalms 86 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 86 A Prayer of David. The title is the same with the Seventeenth Psalm, and the subject of it is much alike: it was written b...

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