Psalms 86:1 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 86:1

Bow down thine ear, O Lord, hear me: for I am poor and needy.

KJV

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ASV

Bow down thine ear, O Jehovah, and answer me; For I am poor and needy.

WEB

Incline Your ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

YLT

A Prayer of David. Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, Answer me, for I am poor and needy.

DBT

Incline thine ear, Jehovah, answer me; for I am afflicted and needy.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Psalms 31:2
Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.
Psalms 40:17
But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
Daniel 9:18
O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
Matthew 5:3
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Psalms 34:6
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

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He does not without cause allege before God the oppressions which he endured as a plea for obtaining the divine favor; for nothing is more suitable to the nature of God than to succor the afflicted: and the more severely any one is oppressed, and the more destitute he is of the resources of human aid, the more inclined is God graciously to help him.

John Calvin· Commentaries, 1554reformed

): Bow down thy ear, O Lord! hear me. When God hears our prayers it is fitly said that he bows down his ear to them, for it is admirable condescension in God that he is pleased to take notice of such mean creatures as we are and such defective prayers as ours are.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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