“Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and comforted me.”
The prayer concludes with promise of witness: "Show me a sign of your favor, so that those who hate me may see it and be ashamed, because you, LORD, have helped and comforted me." The request for a sign becomes not merely personal reassurance but public testimony: the enemies' witnessing of God's favor becomes evidence of God's commitment to the supplicant.
Church Fathers on Psalms 86:17
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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