Psalms 86

1For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations thereof are the holy mountains:

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

2The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

2 Keep my soul, for I amgodly; O thou myGod, save thy servant who confideth in thee.

3Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.

3 Be gracious unto me, O Lord; for unto thee do I call all the day.

4I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, these were there.

4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant; for unto thee, Lord, do I lift up my soul.

5Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her.

5 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, and art of great loving-kindness unto all that call upon thee.

6The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of them that have been in her.

6 Give ear, O Jehovah, unto my prayer, and attend to the voice of my supplications.

7The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.

7 In the day of my distress I will call upon thee, for thou wilt answer me.

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8 Among thegods there is none like unto thee, Lord, and there is nothing like unto thy works.

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9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord, and shall glorify thy name.

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10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou artGod, thou alone.

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11 Teach me thy way, Jehovah; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

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12 I will praise thee, O Lord myGod, with my whole heart; and I will glorify thy name for evermore.

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13 For great is thy loving-kindness toward me, and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

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14 OGod, the proud are risen against me, and the assembly of the violent seek after my soul, and they have not set thee before them.

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15 But thou, Lord, art aGod merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth.

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16 Turn toward me, and be gracious unto me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.

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17 Shew me a token for good, that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed; for thou, Jehovah, hast helped me and comforted me.