PSALM 116 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm contains a solemn thanksgiving to God for a glorious deliverance from grievous and dangerous calamities; as also from great perplexities and terrors of mind arising from the sense of God's displeasure. The psalmist professeth his love to God for his manifold mercies... [ Continue Reading ]
Heb. _in my days_; as long as I have a day to live, as this phrase is used, 2 KINGS 20:19 ISAIAH 39:8. Compare JOB 27:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SORROWS OF DEATH; dangerous and deadly calamities, as bitter as death. Or, the cords of death. OF HELL; or, of the grave; or, of death; either killing pains, or such agonies and horrors as dying persons use to feel within themselves. GAT HOLD UPON ME, Heb. found me, i.e. surprised me. Having bee... [ Continue Reading ]
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GRACIOUS IS THE LORD: this he mentions either, 1. As that which he found by experience in answer to his prayers; or, 2. As the argument by which he encouraged himself to pray. AND RIGHTEOUS; therefore he will maintain me and my just cause against my unrighteous oppressors, and perform his promises... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SIMPLE; sincere and plain-hearted persons, who dare not use those frauds and crafty and wicked artifices in saving themselves or destroying their enemies, but wait upon God with honest hearts in his way and for his time of deliverance; which was the case of David, who, though he had the prospect... [ Continue Reading ]
UNTO THY REST; unto that tranquillity of mind and cheerful confidence in God's promises and providence which thou didst once enjoy.... [ Continue Reading ]
MY SOUL; myself. FROM FALLING, to wit, into mischief, and the pit of destruction.... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL WALK BEFORE THE LORD; or, _I shall walk_, &c. This is either, 1. The psalmist's promise to God in requital of the favour last mentioned; I will therefore please God, as this phrase is used, GENESIS 5:24, compared with HEBREWS 11:5 GENESIS 17:1. I will devote myself to the worship and service... [ Continue Reading ]
I BELIEVED, to wit, God's promise of deliverance and of the kingdom made to me by Samuel, which I was confident he would perform in spite of discouragements and difficulties. THEREFORE HAVE I SPOKEN: so these words are translated, as by others, so by the apostle, 2 CORINTHIANS 4:13. _I have spoken_;... [ Continue Reading ]
I SAID; yet once I confess I spake very unadvisedly. _In my haste_; through hastiness and precipitation of my mind, for want of due consideration, as the same phrase is used, PSALMS 31:22. Or, _in my terror_ or _amazement_, when I was discomposed and distracted with the greatness of my troubles. ALL... [ Continue Reading ]
Yet notwithstanding all my dangers and my distrust of God too, God hath conferred so many and great blessings upon me, that I can never make sufficient returns to him for them.... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL TAKE THE CUP OF SALVATION; I will offer the sacrifice of thanksgiving to God, as this phrase seems to be explained below, PSALMS 116:17, where the latter clause of the verse is the same with that which here follows. The phrase is taken from the common practice of the Jews in their thank-offer... [ Continue Reading ]
MY VOWS; the praises and sacrifices which I vowed to God in the time of my distress. IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL HIS PEOPLE; that they who heard my vows, or understood them by the report of others, might be witnesses of my payment of them, and not be scandalized by my unfaithfulness in that matter.... [ Continue Reading ]
He sets a high price upon it; he will not readily grant it to those that greedily seek it; and if any son of violence procure it, he will make him, pay very dearly for it; and when the saints suffer it for God's sake, as they frequently do, it is a most acceptable sacrifice to God, and highly esteem... [ Continue Reading ]
I AM THY SERVANT: this is either, 1. An argument used in prayer, It becometh thee to protect and save thy own servants, as every good master doth; or rather, 2. A thankful acknowledgment of his great obligations to God, whereby he was in duty bound to be the Lord's faithful and perpetual servant.... [ Continue Reading ]
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And as I said before, so I now repeat my promise, for the greater assurance, and to lay the stricter obligation upon myself.... [ Continue Reading ]
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