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Psalms 116:8-11

PSALM—NOTE ON Psalms 116:8 death, tears, stumbling. These cover a wider variety of circumstances than simply the death of one’s body. This may be the psalmist’s invitation to the singers to apply the psalm more generally to experiences of need. The psalm also shows the thankful person how to make good use of the deliverance: I will walk before the LORD (that is, in love, faith, and obedience toward him).

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See also Psalms 116:8-11 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 116:8. _THOU HAST DELIVERED MY SOUL FROM DEATH_] Thou hast rescued my _life_ from the _destruction_ to which it was exposed. _MINE EYES FROM TEARS_] Thou hast turned my _sorrow_ into _jo...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR THOU HAST DELIVERED MY SOUL FROM DEATH - My life. Thou hast saved me from death. This is such language as would be used by one who had been dangerously ill, and who had been restored again to heal...

  • 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...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. FOR THOU HAST DELIVERED MY SOUL FROM DEATH, MINE EYES FROM TEARS, AND MY FEET FROM FALLING - alluding to...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    FALLING. — Or, _stumbling._ (See Psalms 56:13, the original of this passage.)...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֤י חִלַּ֥צְתָּ נַפְשִׁ֗י מִ֫ מָּ֥וֶת אֶת ־

  • 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

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

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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  • 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

    FOR THOU HAST DELIVERED MY SOUL FROM DEATH,.... From a corporeal death, when his life was in danger, surrounded by Saul's army, in the hand of the Philistines at Gath, and when his son rebelled agains...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling, these three expressions representing all calamities which may befall a man, and the deliverance therefore be...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    MY SOUL; myself. FROM FALLING, to wit, into mischief, and the pit of destruction....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 116:8 delivered H2502 (H8765) soul H5315 death H4194 eyes H5869 tears H1832 feet H7272 falling H1762...

  • 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

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  • 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...

  • 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

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling._ ON RECOVERY FROM SICKNESS I. The blessing conferred. Why was the psalmist so transported with joy, on bei...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 25:8; Isaiah 38:5; Judges 1:24; Psalms 37:24; Psalms 56:13;...

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