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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Psalm 86 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/86.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/psalms/86-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Psalm 86</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/85.htm" title="Psalm 85">◄</a> Psalm 86 <a href="../psalms/87.htm" title="Psalm 87">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/psalms/86-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Tried but Trusting<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/86-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>A prayer to David. Incline, O Jehovah, thine ear: answer me, for I am poor and needy.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/86-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Watch my soul, for I am godly: save thy servant, thou my God, trusting in thee.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/86-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Compassionate me, O Jehovah, for to thee I will call all the day.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/86-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Rejoice the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O Jehovah, will I lift up my soul.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/86-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For thou, O Jehovah, art good and forgiving, and great of mercy to all calling to thee.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/86-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Give ear, O Jehovah, to my prayer, and attend upon the voice of my supplications.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/86-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>In the day of my straits I will call thee, for thou wilt answer me.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/86-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>None like to thee among the gods, O Jehovah, and none according to thy works.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/86-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>All the nations which thou madest shall come and worship before thee, O Jehovah, and they shall do honor to thy name.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/86-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For great art thou, and doing wonders: thou God alone.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/86-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Teach me, O Jehovah, thy way; I will go in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/86-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I will praise thee, O Jehovah, my God, with all my heart, and I will honor thy name forever.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/86-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For thy mercy is great upon me, and thou didst deliver my soul from hades below.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/86-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>O God, the proud rose up against me, and the assemblies of the terrible sought my soul; and they set not thee before them.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/86-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And thou, O Jehovah, art a God compassionate and merciful, and slow to anger and great of mercy and truth.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/86-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Turn to me and pity me; thou wilt give thy strength to thy servant, and save to the son of thy maid-servant.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/86-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>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.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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