God, that
trusteth in thee.

I am holy... I am by my office and profession dedicated to thy service.

85:3. Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I have cried to thee all the day.

85:4. Give joy to the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O Lord, I have
lifted up my soul.

85:5. For thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild: and plenteous in mercy to
all that call upon thee.

85:6. Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer: and attend to the voice of my
petition.

85:7. I have called upon thee in the day of my trouble: because thou
hast heard me.

85:8. There is none among the gods like unto thee, O Lord: and there is
none according to thy works.

85:9. All the nations thou hast made shall come and adore before thee, O
Lord: and they shall glorify thy name.

85:10. For thou art great and dost wonderful things: thou art God alone.

85:11. Conduct me, O Lord, in thy way, and I will walk in thy truth: let
my heart rejoice that it may fear thy name.

85:12. I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I
will glorify thy name for ever:

85:13. For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my
soul out of the lower hell.

85:14. O God, the wicked are risen up against me, and the assembly of
the mighty have sought my soul: and they have not set thee before their
eyes.

85:15. And thou, O Lord, art a God of compassion, and merciful, patient,
and of much mercy, and true.

85:16. O look upon me, and have mercy on me: give thy command to thy
servant, and save the son of thy handmaid.

85:17. Shew 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.

Psalms Chapter 86

Fundamenta ejus.

The glory of the church of Christ.

86:1. For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations
thereof are the holy mountains:

The holy mountains... The apostles and prophets. Eph. 2.20.

86:2. The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of
Jacob.

86:3. Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.

86:4. I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold the
foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, these were
there.

Rahab... Egypt, etc. To this Sion, which is the church of God, many
shall resort from all nations.

86:5. Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the
Highest himself hath founded her.

Shall not Sion say, etc... The meaning is, that Sion, viz., the