Psalm 86

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹ Turn your ear, O Lord.
Answer me, for I am poor and needy.
² Guard my life, for I am favored by you.^[a]
You are my God.
Save your servant, who trusts in you.
³ Have mercy on me, O Lord,
for I call to you all day long.
⁴ Bring joy to the soul of your servant,
for to you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.

⁵ Indeed, you, Lord, are good and forgiving
and abounding in mercy to all who call to you.
⁶ Give ear to my prayer, O Lord.
Pay attention to the sound of my cries for mercy.

⁷ In the day of my distress I will call to you,
    because you will answer me.
⁸ There is no one like you among the gods, O Lord.
There are no deeds like your deeds.
⁹ All the nations you have made will come.
They will bow before you, O Lord,
and they will give glory to your name,
¹⁰ because you are great and do marvelous deeds.
You alone are God.

¹¹ Teach me your way, O Lord.
I will walk in your truth.
Give me wholehearted commitment to fear your name.
¹² I will thank you, O Lord my God, with all my heart,
and I will glorify your name forever.
¹³ For great is your mercy toward me,
and you have delivered my soul from “the lowest hell.”^[b]

¹⁴ God, the arrogant rise against me.
A mob of ruthless men seeks my life.
They pay no attention to you.
¹⁵ But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God,
slow to anger, abounding in mercy and faithfulness.
¹⁶ Turn to me and have mercy on me.
Give your strength to your servant.
Save the son of your maidservant.
¹⁷ Give a sign of your goodness for me.
Then those who hate me will see it and be put to shame,
because you, Lord, have helped me and comforted me.