Psalms 86:13

“For great is thy mercy toward me, etc.] Both in things temporal and spiritual; an instance of which follows: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell; from a very distressed and disconsolate condition, being almost in despair, under a deep sense of sin, and a fearful apprehension of the wrath of God, as, particularly, when he was charged by Nathan; or from hell itself, and the severest punishment in it; from the second and eternal death, which every man is deserving of, and are only delivered from by the grace of God, and blood of Christ: this shows the sense the psalmist had of the just demerit of sin, and his thankfulness for deliverance from it; (see <195613>Psalm 56:13).…”

“For great is thy mercy toward me - In respect to me; or, Thou hast manifested great mercy to me; to wit, in past times. He makes use of this now as an argument or reason why God should interpose again. (a) He had shown on former occasions that he had power to save; (b) the fact that he had thus treated him as his friend was a reason why he should now befriend him. And thou hast delivered my soul - My life. The meaning is, that he had kept him alive in times of imminent danger. At the same time David could say, as every child of God can say, that God had delivered his soul in the strict and proper sense of the term - from sin, and death, and hell itself. From the lowest hell - Margin, grave;…”

“Hell - From extreme dangers and miseries. Next: Psalms Chapter 87”

“great: Psa 57:10, Psa 103:8-12, Psa 108:4; Luk 1:58 and thou: Psa 16:10, Psa 56:13, Psa 88:6, Psa 116:8; Job 33:18, Job 33:22, Job 33:24, Job 33:28; Isa 38:17; Jon 2:3-6; Th1 1:10 hell: or, grave Psalms 86:14”