Psalm 86:16
New International Version
Turn to me and have mercy on me; show your strength in behalf of your servant; save me, because I serve you just as my mother did.

New Living Translation
Look down and have mercy on me. Give your strength to your servant; save me, the son of your servant.

English Standard Version
Turn to me and be gracious to me; give your strength to your servant, and save the son of your maidservant.

Berean Standard Bible
Turn to me and have mercy; grant Your strength to Your servant; save the son of Your maidservant.

King James Bible
O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.

New King James Version
Oh, turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give Your strength to Your servant, And save the son of Your maidservant.

New American Standard Bible
Turn to me, and be gracious to me; Grant Your strength to Your servant, And save the son of Your maidservant.

NASB 1995
Turn to me, and be gracious to me; Oh grant Your strength to Your servant, And save the son of Your handmaid.

NASB 1977
Turn to me, and be gracious to me; Oh grant Thy strength to Thy servant, And save the son of Thy handmaid.

Legacy Standard Bible
Turn to me, and be gracious to me; Oh grant Your strength to Your slave, And save the son of Your maidservant.

Amplified Bible
Turn to me, and be gracious to me; Grant Your strength [Your might and the power to resist temptation] to Your servant, And save the son of Your handmaid.

Christian Standard Bible
Turn to me and be gracious to me. Give your strength to your servant; save the son of your female servant.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Turn to me and be gracious to me. Give Your strength to Your servant; save the son of Your female servant.

American Standard Version
Oh turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; Give thy strength unto thy servant, And save the son of thy handmaid.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Return to me and show mercy to me; give power to your Servant and save the son of your maid Servant!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Look thou upon me, and have mercy upon me: give thy strength to thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.

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.

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.

English Revised Version
O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Turn toward me, and have pity on me. Give me your strength because I am your servant. Save me because I am the son of your female servant.

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.

International Standard Version
Return to me and have mercy on me; clothe your servant with your strength and deliver the son of your maid servant.

JPS Tanakh 1917
O turn unto me, and be gracious unto me; Give Thy strength unto Thy servant, And save the son of Thy handmaid.

Literal Standard Version
Look to me, and favor me, | Give Your strength to Your servant, | And give salvation to a son of Your handmaid.

Majority Standard Bible
Turn to me and have mercy; grant Your strength to Your servant; save the son of Your maidservant.

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

NET Bible
Turn toward me and have mercy on me! Give your servant your strength! Deliver your slave!

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.

New Heart English Bible
Turn to me, and have mercy on me. Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your handmaid.

Webster's Bible Translation
O turn to me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength to thy servant, and save the son of thy handmaid.

World English Bible
Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your servant.

Young's Literal Translation
Look unto me, and favour me, Give Thy strength to Thy servant, And give salvation to a son of Thine handmaid.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Tried But Trusting
15But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness. 16Turn to me and have mercy; grant Your strength to Your servant; save the son of Your maidservant. 17Show me a sign of Your goodness, that my enemies may see and be ashamed; for You, O LORD, have helped me and comforted me.…

Cross References
Numbers 6:25
may the LORD cause His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;

Psalm 25:16
Turn to me and be gracious, for I am lonely and afflicted.

Psalm 68:35
O God, You are awesome in Your sanctuary; the God of Israel Himself gives strength and power to His people. Blessed be God!

Psalm 69:16
Answer me, O LORD, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.

Psalm 116:16
Truly, O LORD, I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have broken my bonds.


Treasury of Scripture

O turn to me, and have mercy on me; give your strength to your servant, and save the son of your handmaid.

turn

Psalm 25:16
Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.

Psalm 69:16
Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

Psalm 90:13
Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

give

Psalm 28:7,8
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him…

Psalm 84:5
Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.

Psalm 138:3
In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.

Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Colossians 1:11
Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

Psalm 116:16
O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.

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Psalm 86
1. David strengthens his prayer by the consciousness of his religion
5. By the goodness and power of God
11. He desires the continuance of former grace
14. Complaining of the proud, he craves some token of God's goodness














(16) Servant . . . son of thine handmaid.--Comp. Psalm 116:16. The combined expressions imply a homeborn slave. (Comp. Genesis 14:14; Jeremiah 2:14)

Verse 16. - Oh turn unto me, and have mercy upon me. God had for a time turned his face away from his servant; now he is entreated to turn it towards him, and, as a consequence, to "have mercy upon him" and deliver him. Give thy strength unto thy servant. Only in God's strength can we effectually contend against either our spiritual or our temporal foes. If, however, we ask him for strength, his strength will be "sufficient for us" (2 Corinthians 12:9). And save the son of thine handmaid. Either "the son of one who was specially religious," like the mother of Timothy (2 Timothy 1:5). or" the son of an Israelitish mother," therefore born and bred up in thy household.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Turn
פְּנֵ֥ה (pə·nêh)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 6437: To turn, to face, appear, look

to me
אֵלַ֗י (’ê·lay)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

and have mercy;
וְחָ֫נֵּ֥נִי (wə·ḥān·nê·nî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 2603: To bend, stoop in kindness to an inferior, to favor, bestow, to implore

grant
תְּנָֽה־ (tə·nāh-)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

Your strength
עֻזְּךָ֥ (‘uz·zə·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5797: Strength, might

to Your servant;
לְעַבְדֶּ֑ךָ (lə·‘aḇ·de·ḵā)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5650: Slave, servant

save
וְ֝הוֹשִׁ֗יעָה (wə·hō·wō·šî·‘āh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 3467: To be open, wide, free, to be safe, to free, succor

the son
לְבֶן־ (lə·ḇen-)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1121: A son

of Your maidservant.
אֲמָתֶֽךָ׃ (’ă·mā·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 519: A maidservant, female slave


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