Psalms 86:1

Psalms 86:1 « A Prayer of David. » Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I [am] poor and needy.

A prayer ] Left for a form, for a help to devotion, as was also Psa 102:1 title.

Ver. 1. Bow down thine ear, O Lord ] As the careful Physician doth to his feeble patient; so Basil glosseth here.

For I am poor and needy ] Having nothing to live on but what my friends privately send me, or what I can get by plundering from the Lord’s enemies, 1 Samuel 30:26 .