Psalm 86:1

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Summary

Psalm 86:1

{A Prayer of David.} Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.

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Psalm 31:2

Isaiah 37:17

Daniel 9:18

For i am

Bible References

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Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.

Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.

My God, turn 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 petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies' sake.

For i am

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don't delay, my God. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

For all these things has my hand made, and [so] all these things came to be," says Yahweh: "but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?