Psalm 86 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

¹ A prayer to David. Incline, O Jehovah, thine ear: answer me, for I am poor and needy.

² Watch my soul, for I am godly: save thy servant, thou my God, trusting in thee.

³ Compassionate me, O Jehovah, for to thee I will call all the day.

⁴ Rejoice the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O Jehovah, will I lift up my soul.

⁵ For thou, O Jehovah, art good and forgiving, and great of mercy to all calling to thee.

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

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

⁸ None like to thee among the gods, O Jehovah, and none according to thy works.

⁹ All the nations which thou madest shall come and worship before thee, O Jehovah, and they shall do honor to thy name.

¹⁰ For great art thou, and doing wonders: thou God alone.

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

¹² I will praise thee, O Jehovah, my God, with all my heart, and I will honor thy name forever.

¹³ For thy mercy is great upon me, and thou didst deliver my soul from hades below.

¹⁴ O God, the proud rose up against me, and the assemblies of the terrible sought my soul; and they set not thee before them.

¹⁵ And thou, O Jehovah, art a God compassionate and merciful, and slow to anger and great of mercy and truth.

¹⁶ Turn to me and pity me; thou wilt give thy strength to thy servant, and save to the son of thy maid-servant

¹⁷ Make with me a sign for good, and they hating me shall see and be ashamed: for thou, Jehovah, didst help me and comfort me.