Psalms, 86

A prayer of David.

¹ Incline, O Jehovah, your ear. Answer me, For I am afflicted and poor.

² O do guard my soul, for I am loyal. Save your servant—you are my God—that is trusting in you.

³ Show me favor, O Jehovah,^*1 For to you I keep calling all day long.

⁴ Make the soul of your servant rejoice, For to you, O Jehovah,^*1 I lift up my very soul.

⁵ For you, O Jehovah,^*1 are good and ready to forgive; And the loving-kindness to all those calling upon you is abundant.

⁶ Do give ear, O Jehovah, to my prayer; And do pay attention to the voice of my entreaties.

⁷ In the day of my distress I will call upon you, For you will answer me.

⁸ There is none like you among the gods,^*1 O Jehovah,^*2 Neither are there any works like yours.

⁹ All the nations whom you have made will themselves come, And they will bow down before you, O Jehovah,^*1 And will give glory to your name.

¹⁰ For you are great and are doing wondrous things; You are God, you alone.

¹¹ Instruct me, O Jehovah, about your way. I shall walk in your truth. Unify my heart to fear your name.

¹² I laud you, O Jehovah^*1 my God, with all my heart, And I will glorify your name to time indefinite,

¹³ For your loving-kindness is great toward me, And you have delivered my soul out of Sheʹol, its lowest place.

¹⁴ O God, the presumptuous ones themselves have risen up against me; And the very assembly of tyrannical ones have looked for my soul, And they have not set you in front of themselves.

¹⁵ But you, O Jehovah,^*1 are a God^*2 merciful and gracious, Slow to anger and abundant in loving-kindness and trueness.^*3

¹⁶ Turn to me and show me favor. Do give your strength to your servant, And do save the son of your slave girl.

¹⁷ Work out with me a sign meaning goodness, That those hating me may see [it] and be ashamed. For you yourself, O Jehovah, have helped me and comforted me.