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Psalms 116:1-19

Psalm PSALM—NOTE ON Psalms 116:1. This is a hymn of personal thanksgiving for God’s care. The specific circumstance is a narrow escape from death (vv. Psalms 116:3, Psalms 116:8, Psalms 116:15). The psalm shows that such thanksgiving for a very personal blessing is properly offered in public worship.

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See also Psalms 116:1-19 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    PSALM CXVI _The psalmist praises God for his deliverance from thraldom,_ _which he compares to death and the grave_, 1-9. _The exercises through which he had passed_, 10, 11. _His gratitude for th...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I LOVE THE LORD - The Hebrew rather means, “I love, because the Lord hath heard,” etc. That is, the psalmist was conscious of love; he felt it glowing in his soul; his heart was full of that special j...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 116 The Praise of Israel for Deliverance from Death _ 1. The Deliverance-Experience (Psalms 116:1)_ 2. Thanksgiving (Psalms 116:10) Redeemed Israel expresseth in this Psalm her love to Jeho...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    CXVI. A SONG OF COMFORT IN AFFLICTION. There is nothing to justify the division into two Pss. (_a_) Psalms 116:1, (_b_) Psalms 116:10 (LXX); the same theme in its double aspect is continued throughout...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. MY VOICE AND MY SUPPLICATIONS. My supplicating voice. Figure of speech _Hendiadys._ App-6. So some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "the voice o...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 689 THANKSGIVING FOR DELIVERANCE Psalms 116:1. I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _The Psalmist professeth his love and duty to God for his deliverance: he studieth to be thankful._ THIS psalm was probably written by David upon his deliverance from Absalom's rebellion; though some...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 116 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Individual Thanks for Deliverance from Peril of Death. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 116:1-4, With Profession of Love the Psalmist Describes his Peril and Prayer. Stanza I...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Psalms 116:1.-The Psalmist's love to Yahweh, and resolution to call upon Him all his life, for having heard his prayer (Psalms...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Psalms 115-118 were probably the hymns sung by our Lord and His disciples. Some modern scholars, however, deny this, on the ground that, in Christ's time, the Hallel was only in its beginning, and con...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ HE SAVED ME! PSALMS 116 Jesus said, "If the Son (of God) makes you free, you will be really free!" (John 8

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I LOVE THE LORD. — Besides this rendering, where _Jehovah_ is supplied as an object, this poet being given to use verbs without an object (see Psalms 116:2; Psalms 116:10), there are two other possibl...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אָ֭הַבְתִּי כִּֽי ־יִשְׁמַ֥ע ׀ יְהוָ֑ה אֶת ־קֹ֝ולִ֗י...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 116:1 THIS psalm is intensely individual. "I," "me," or "my" occurs in every verse but two (Psalms 116:5, Psalms 116:19). The singer is but recently delivered from some peril, and his song heav...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    HE DELIVERED MY SOUL Psalms 116:1 Throughout this psalm we meet the pronoun in the first person. Only in two verses, Psalms 116:15 and Psalms 116:19, does it not so occur. There is no fear of egotism...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This is the fourth song of the Hallel. In it the note of triumph over death, with which the last one closed, is elaborated. The singer had evidently been in some grave peril in which he had practicall...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    I (a) love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice [and] my supplications. (a) He grants that no pleasure is so great as to feel God's help in our need, neither that anything more stirs up our love...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Alleluia. This word is found at the end of the last psalm, in Hebrew. (Haydock) --- The captives invite all to thank God for their delivery, which was a most striking figure of the world's redemption,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    CONTENTS This Psalm contains some very gracious breathings of a devout soul; whether, by the spirit of prophecy, the sacred writer penned them as the suited language of Christ in the days of his flesh...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    1_I have loved, because Jehovah will hear the voice of my supplication. _At the very commencement of this psalm David avows that he was attracted with the sweetness of God’s goodness, to place his hop...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Psalms 116 celebrates this deliverance when they were at the very point of death. Jehovah had heard them, and they would walk before the Lord in the land of the living. In this view it is a continual...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I LOVE THE LORD,.... As the Messiah, David's antitype, did; of which he gave the fullest proof by his obedience to his will; and as David, the man after God's own heart, did, and as every good man doe...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice [and] my supplications._ Ver. 1. _I love the Lord_] Heb. I love, because the Lord hath heard, &c., _Vex abrupta et ecliptica,_ an abrupt concise eclip...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I love the Lord_ Hebrew, _I love, because the Lord hath heard my voice._ “The soul, transported with gratitude and love, seems, at first, to express her affection without declaring its object, as thi...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I love the Lord because He hath heard my voice and my supplications, the fact that God attended to His prayer and delivered him fills his heart with grateful love....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THANKSGIVING FOR DELIVERANCE FROM EXTREME PERILS. The psalmist proclaims the fact that he was saved from great dangers, celebrates his deliverance by giving praise to God alone, and pledges His publi...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-9 We have many reasons for loving the Lord, but are most affected by his loving-kindness when relieved out of deep distress. When a poor sinner is awakened to a sense of his state, and fears that h...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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 f...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 116:1 love H157 (H8804) LORD H3068 heard H8085 (H8799) voice H6963 supplications H8469 love -...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 116:1 (1) There are multitudes who are utterly careless about God, in whose minds He exists as the object neither of one feeling nor another, who never think of Him so as either to love Him or...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    We have read this Psalm many times, let us read it now, not regarding it so much as the language of the psalmist uttered thousands of years ago, as our own language at this moment. Psalms 116:1. _I l...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 116:1. _I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications._ Every answered prayer should make us love the Lord, and especially those prayers that come up from our heart when...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    We have read this Psalm many times, and have often felt it to be a photograph of our own spiritual experience; but we will, on this occasion, read it from one special point of view. Please notice that...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    In this Psalm, David tells us his experience with regard to God and with regard to men. Psalms 116:1. _I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications._ Answered prayer is a goo...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    I knew a godly woman who, when she was very sick, would always say, «Read me the 116 th Psalm.» It is deservedly a great favourite with many experienced Christians. May the Holy Spirit apply it to our...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    It begins well. Psalms 116:1. _I love the Lord,_ Can you say that? «Yea, Lord, thou knowest all things. Thou knowest that I love thee.» «I love the Lord.» Love is said to be blind, but not love to G...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 116:1. _I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications._ You cannot help loving God if he has heard your prayers. Have you tried him? If you have, you can join with David...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Thanksgiving for the many gracious deliverances God had wrought. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: The experiences we have had of God's goodness in answer to prayer are great encourag...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    It is scarcely doubted but David is the author of this psalm, and that he wrote it when in exile from Saul's persecution, or when Absalom rebelled, or on some similar occasion of danger and grief. It...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I love the Lord, because He hath heard my voice and my supplications._ CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE AND ITS RESULTS I. The psalm opens with a general declaration of gratitude to God, as the hearer of praye...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION “This Psalm is an evidence of the truth and depth of the religious life in individuals after the return from the Exile.… It reminds us of earlier Psalms, and especially of the Psalms of D...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION A PSALM of thanksgiving on deliverance from an imminent peril, placed in the mouth of an individual, but possibly intended for liturgical use on some occasion of a national deliverance. Hen...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 John 4:19; 1 John 5:2; 1 John 5:3; 1 Samuel 1:26; Genesis 35:2;...

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