Psalm 86:1
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New International Version (©1984)
A prayer of David. Hear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
A Prayer of David. Incline Your ear, O LORD, and answer me; For I am afflicted and needy.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
[A prayer by David.] Turn your ear [toward me], O LORD. Answer me, because I am oppressed and needy.

King James Bible
Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.

American King James Version
Bow down your ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.

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

Bible in Basic English
<A Prayer. Of David.> Let your ears be open to my voice, O Lord, and give me an answer; for I am poor and in need.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A prayer for David himself. Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear me: for I am needy and poor.

Darby Bible Translation
{A Prayer of David.} Incline thine ear, Jehovah, answer me; for I am afflicted and needy.

English Revised Version
A Prayer Of David. Bow down thine ear, O LORD, and answer me; for I am poor and needy.

Webster's Bible Translation
A Prayer of David. Bow down thy ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.

World English Bible
Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

Young's Literal Translation
A Prayer of David. Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, Answer me, for I am poor and needy.

Geneva Study Bible

<> Bow down {a} thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.

(a) David, when persecuted by Saul, prayed this way, leaving the same to the Church as a monument, how to seek relief against their miseries.

King James Translators' Notes

A Prayer...: or, A Prayer, being a Psalm of David

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

PSALM 86

Ps 86:1-17. This is a prayer in which the writer, with deep emotion, mingles petitions and praises, now urgent for help, and now elated with hope, in view of former mercies. The occurrence of many terms and phrases peculiar to David's Psalms clearly intimates its authorship.

1, 2. poor and needy-a suffering child of God, as in Ps 10:12, 17; 18:27.

I am holy-or, "godly," as in Ps 4:3; 85:8.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

86:1-7 Our poverty and wretchedness, when felt, powerfully plead in our behalf at the throne of grace. The best self-preservation is to commit ourselves to God's keeping. I am one whom thou favourest, hast set apart for thyself, and made partaker of sanctifying grace. It is a great encouragement to prayer, to feel that we have received the converting grace of God, have learned to trust in him, and to be his servants. We may expect comfort from God, when we keep up our communion with God. God's goodness appears in two things, in giving and forgiving. Whatever others do, let us call upon God, and commit our case to him; we shall not seek in vain.


Psalm 17:6 I have called upon You, for You will answer me, O God; Incline Your ear to me, hear my speech.
Psalm 31:2 Incline Your ear to me, rescue me quickly; Be to me a rock of strength, A stronghold to save me.
Psalm 40:17 Since I am afflicted and needy, Let the Lord be mindful of me. You are my help and my deliverer; Do not delay, O my God.
Psalm 70:5 But I am afflicted and needy; Hasten to me, O God! You are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not delay.
Psalm 71:2 In Your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; Incline Your ear to me and save me. (NASB ©1995)

Afflicted Bow David Ear Ears Hear Incline Need Needy Open Poor Prayer Voice


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

1 David strengthens his prayer by the consciousness of his religion
5 By the goodness and power of God
11 He desires the continuance of former grace
14 Complaining of the proud, he craves some token of God's goodness

A Prayer of David., or a prayer, being a Psalm of David. This Psalm is supposed to have been composed by David either when persecuted by Saul, or driven from Jerusalem by Absalom. Ps 102:1 142:1

Bow Ps 31:2 Isa 37:17 Da 9:18

for I am Ps 10:14 34:6 40:17 72:12-14 102:17 119:22 140:12 Isa 66:2 Mt 5:3 Lu 4:18 Jas 1:9,10 2:5

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Alphabetical: A afflicted am and answer David ear for Hear I Incline LORD me needy O of poor prayer Your

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