Psalm 85–86

Psalm 85

¹A prayer for David himself.

Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear me: for I am needy and poor.

²Preserve my soul, for I am holy: save thy servant, O my God, that trusteth in thee.

³Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I have cried to thee all the day.

⁴Give joy to the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O Lord, I have lifted up my soul.

⁵For thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild: and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee.

⁶Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer: and attend to the voice of my petition.

⁷I have called upon thee in the day of my trouble: because thou hast heard me.

⁸There is none among the gods like unto thee, O Lord: and there is none according to thy works.

⁹All the nations thou hast made shall come and adore before thee, O Lord: and they shall glorify thy name.

¹⁰For thou art great and dost wonderful things: thou art God alone.

¹¹Conduct me, O Lord, in thy way, and I will walk in thy truth: let my heart rejoice that it may fear thy name.

¹²I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify thy name for ever:

¹³For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul out of the lower hell.

¹⁴O God, the wicked are risen up against me, and the assembly of the mighty have sought my soul: and they have not set thee before their eyes.

¹⁵And thou, O Lord, art a God of compassion, and merciful, patient, and of much mercy, and true.

¹⁶O look upon me, and have mercy on me: give thy command to thy servant, and save the son of thy handmaid.

¹⁷Shew me a token for good: that they who hate me may see, and be confounded, because thou, O Lord, hast helped me and hast comforted me.

Psalm 86

¹For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle.

The foundations thereof are the holy mountains:

²The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

³Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.

⁴I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, these were there.

⁵Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her.

⁶The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of them that have been in her.

⁷The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.