Jamieson, Fausset & Brown's Commentary
Commentary on Psalms 85
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown's verse-by-verse commentary on Psalms 85, from Commentary Critical and Explanatory. Read it alongside the full text of the chapter.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown's Commentary
This is a prayer in which the writer, with deep emotion, mingles petitions and praises, now urgent for help, and now elated with hope, in view of former mercies. The occurrence of many terms and phrases peculiar to David's Psalms clearly intimates its authorship. (Psa. 86:1-17)
poor and needy--a suffering child of God, as in Psa 10:12, Psa 10:17; Psa 18:27.
I am holy--or, "godly," as in Psa 4:3; Psa 85:8.