“For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.”
God's commitment is affirmed: "For great is your steadfast love toward me; you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol." The hesed (steadfast love, covenant loyalty) of God becomes ground for gratitude. The liberation from the depths of Sheol (death/the underworld) represents deliverance from ultimate peril.
Church Fathers on Psalms 86:13
1. No greater gift could God have given to men than in making His Word, by which He created all things, their Head, and joining them to Him as His members: that the Son of God might become also the Son of man, one God with the Father, one Man with men; so that when we speak to God in prayer for mercy, we do not separate the Son from Him; and when the Body of the Son prays, it separates not its Head from itself: and it is one Saviour of His Body, our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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