Psalm 86:16 {85:16}
Good News Translation
Turn to me and have mercy on me; strengthen me and save me, because I serve you just as my mother did.

New Revised Standard Version
Turn to me and be gracious to me; give your strength to your servant; save the child of your serving girl.

Contemporary English Version
I serve you, LORD, and I am the child of one of your servants. Look on me with kindness. Make me strong and save me.

New American Bible
Turn to me, be gracious to me; give your strength to your servant; save the son of your handmaid.

Douay-Rheims Bible
O look upon me, and have mercy on me: give thy command to thy servant, and save the son of thy handmaid.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

O look upon me, and have mercy on me: give thy command to thy servant, and save the son of thy handmaid.

turn

Psalm 25:16 Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me; for I am alone and poor.

Psalm 69:16 Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is kind; look upon me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

Psalm 90:13 Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated in favour of thy servants.

Psalm 119:132 Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me according to the judgment of them that love thy name.

give

Psalm 28:7,8 The Lord is my helper and my protector: in him hath my heart confided, and I have been helped. And my flesh hath flourished again, and with my will I will give praise to him. . . .

Psalm 84:5 Blessed is the man whose help is from thee: in his heart he hath disposed to ascend by steps,

Psalm 138:3 In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me: thou shalt multiply strength in my soul.

Isaiah 40:29-31 It is he that giveth strength to the weary, and increaseth force and might to them that are not. . . .

Isaiah 45:24 For every knee shall be bowed to me, and every tongue shall swear.

Zechariah 10:12 I will strengthen them in the Lord, and they shall walk in his name, saith the Lord.

Ephesians 3:16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened by his Spirit with might unto the inward man:

Ephesians 6:10 Finally, brethren, be strengthened in the Lord and in the might of his power.

Philippians 4:13 I can do all things in him who strengtheneth me.

Colossians 1:11 Strengthened with all might according to the power of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy,


the son

Psalm 116:16 O Lord, for I am thy servant: I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid. Thou hast broken my bonds:

Psalm 119:94 I am thine, save thou me: for I have sought thy justifications.

Luke 1:38 And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord: be it done to me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.

Context
Tried But Trusting
15And thou, O Lord, art a God of compassion, and merciful, patient, and of much mercy, and true. 16O look upon me, and have mercy on me: give thy command to thy servant, and save the son of thy handmaid.17Shew me a token for good: that they who hate me may see, and be confounded, because thou, O Lord, hast helped me and hast comforted me.…
Cross References
Numbers 6:25
The Lord shew his face to thee, and have mercy on thee.

Psalm 25:16
Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me; for I am alone and poor.

Psalm 68:35
God is wonderful in his saints: the God of Israel is he who will give power and strength to his people. Blessed be God.

Psalm 69:16
Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is kind; look upon me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

Psalm 116:16
O Lord, for I am thy servant: I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid. Thou hast broken my bonds:

Psalm 86:15
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