Psalm 86

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Psalm 86

Lament and Petition

A prayer of David.

¹Listen, Lord, and answer me,
for I am poor and needy.^(A)
²Protect my life, for I am faithful.^(B)
You are my God; save your servant who trusts in you.^(C)
³Be gracious to me, Lord,
for I call to you all day long.^(D)
⁴Bring joy to your servant’s life,
because I appeal to you, Lord.^(E)

⁵For you, Lord, are kind and ready to forgive,^(F)
abounding in faithful love to all who call on you.^(G)
⁶Lord, hear my prayer;
listen to my cries for mercy.^(H)
⁷I call on you in the day of my distress,
for you will answer me.^(I)

⁸Lord, there is no one like you among the gods,
and there are no works like yours.^(J)
⁹All the nations you have made
will come and bow down before you, Lord,
and will honor your name.^(K)
¹⁰For you are great and perform wonders;
you alone are God.^(L)

¹¹Teach me your way, Lord,
and I will live by your truth.
Give me an undivided mind to fear your name.^(M)
¹²I will praise you with all my heart, Lord my God,
and will honor your name forever.^(N)
¹³For your faithful love for me is great,
and you rescue my life from the depths of Sheol.^(O)

¹⁴God, arrogant people have attacked me;
a gang of ruthless men intends to kill me.
They do not let you guide them.^[a]^(P)
¹⁵But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God,
slow to anger and abounding in faithful love and truth.^(Q)
¹⁶Turn to me and be gracious to me.
Give your strength to your servant;
save the son of your female servant.^(R)
¹⁷Show me a sign of your goodness;
my enemies will see and be put to shame
because you, Lord, have helped and comforted me.^(S)

Footnotes

86:14 Lit They do not set you in front of them

2 Corinthians 1:3-9

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The God of Comfort

³Blessed be^(A) the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies^(B) and the God of all comfort.^(C) ⁴He comforts us in all our affliction,^[a] so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God. ⁵For just as the sufferings^(D) of Christ^(E) overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.^(F) ⁶If we are afflicted,^(G) it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings that we suffer.^(H) ⁷And our hope^(I) for you is firm, because we know that as you share^(J) in the sufferings, so you will also share in the comfort.

⁸We don’t want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of our affliction that took place in Asia.^(K) We were completely overwhelmed—beyond our strength^(L)—so that we even despaired^(M) of life itself. ⁹Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God^(N) who raises^(O) the dead.

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Footnotes

1:4 Or trouble, or tribulation, or trials, or oppression

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