Jamieson, Fausset & Brown's Commentary
Commentary on Psalms 86
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown's verse-by-verse commentary on Psalms 86, from Commentary Critical and Explanatory. Read it alongside the full text of the chapter.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown's Commentary
This triumphal song was probably occasioned by the same event as the forty-sixth [see on Psa 46:1, title]. The writer celebrates the glory of the Church, as the means of spiritual blessing to the nation. (Psa 87:1-7)
His--that is, God's
foundation--or, what He has founded, that is, Zion (Isa 14:32).
is in the holy mountains--the location of Zion, in the wide sense, for the capital, or Jerusalem, being on several hills.