Psalm 86 - David's Prayer for Mercy and an Undivided Heart
David's plea as one both poor and needy, and confident he will be heard.
Unlike the surrounding psalms of Korah, Psalm 86 is labeled simply 'A Prayer of David,' opening with the honest admission 'I am poor and needy.' It follows Psalms 85 with a more personal, first-person voice asking to be taught God's way.
The title of the sixte and eiytetithe salm. `The salm of the song of the sones of Chore. The foundementis therof ben in hooli hillis;
the Lord loueth the yatis of Sion, more than alle the tabernaclis of Jacob.
Thou citee of God, with outen ende; gloriouse thingis ben seide of thee.
I schal be myndeful of Raab, and Babiloyne; knowynge me. Lo! aliens, and Tyre, and the puple of Ethiopiens; thei weren there.
Whether a man schal seie to Sion, And a man is born ther ynne; and that man altherhiyeste foundide it?
The Lord schal telle in the scripturis of puplis; and of these princis, that weren ther ynne.
As the dwellyng `of alle that ben glad; is in thee.