“Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Psalms 86 contains 17 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.