Psalm

86 Incline your ear,* O Jehovah, and answer me,

For I am afflicted and poor.+

Save your servant who is trusting in you,

For you are my God.+

 3 Show me favor, O Jehovah,+

For I call to you all day long.+

 4 Make your servant* rejoice,

For to you, O Jehovah, I turn.*

 5 For you, O Jehovah, are good+ and ready to forgive;+

You abound in loyal love for all those who call on you.+

 6 Listen, O Jehovah, to my prayer;

And pay attention to my pleas for help.+

 7 I call on you in the day of my distress,+

For you will answer me.+

 8 There is none like you among the gods, O Jehovah,+

There are no works like yours.+

 9 All the nations that you made

Will come and bow down before you, O Jehovah,+

And they will give glory to your name.+

10 For you are great and do wondrous things;+

You are God, you alone.+

12 I praise you, O Jehovah my God, with all my heart,+

And I will glorify your name forever,

13 For your loyal love toward me is great,

And you have saved my life* from the depths of the Grave.*+

14 O God, presumptuous men rise up against me;+

A band of ruthless men seek to take my life,*

And they have no regard for you.*+

15 But you, O Jehovah, are a God merciful and compassionate,*

Slow to anger and abundant in loyal love and faithfulness.*+

Give your strength to your servant,+

And save the son of your slave girl.

17 Show me a sign* of your goodness,

So that those who hate me may see it and be put to shame.