Psalms 86:14

"For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol."

Key Reflection

This verse reflects David's deep sense of God’s profound mercy and deliverance. By stating that God has saved his soul from "the lowest Sheol," David emphasizes not just physical survival but a spiritual rescue from the depths of sin and death, highlighting the transformative power of divine grace.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

O God, the proud are risen against me -People who are self-confident, ambitious, haughty; who do not regard the welfare or the rights of others; who are disposed to trample down all others in order that they may accomplish their own purposes; these are the people who have opposed me and sought my life. This would apply either to the time of Saul or of Absalom. In both these cases there were men who would correspond to this description. And the assemblies of violent men -Margin,” terrible.” The Septuagint and the Vulgate render this, “the synagogue of the wicked.” The word rendered violent means properly terrible, inspiring terror; then, violent, fierce, lawless, tyrants.

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