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Verse Psalms 116:11. _I SAID IN MY HASTE_] This is variously
translated: _I_ _said in my flight_, CHALDEE. In my _excess_, or
ecstasy, VULGATE. In my _ecstasy_, εκστασει, SEPTUAGINT.
[Arabic] _tahayu...
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I SAID IN MY HASTE - The Hebrew word used here means to flee in haste;
to be in alarm and trepidation; and the idea seems to be, that the
assertion referred to was made under the influence of exciteme...
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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...
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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...
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HASTE. hasting.
ALL MEN. Hebrew. _'adam_ (with Art.). all humanity.
LIARS: or false....
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I BELIEVED, THEREFORE HAVE I SPOKEN— _I believed_ (_for I will speak
it; I was very low_)_, I said in my haste, The whole race of man is a
lie._ These two verses express the low state of spirits to wh...
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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...
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I said in my haste, All men are liars.
I SAID IN MY HASTE - i:e., in my trepidation ... my consternation,
caused by my 'great affliction' (Psalms 31:22). The relation between
the Hebrew, "I said" ...
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116:11 haste, (b-5) Or 'agitation.' see Psalms 31:22 . men (c-7) Or
'mankind,' _ Adam_ . see Genesis 1:27 ....
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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...
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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
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I BELIEVED, THEREFORE HAVE I SPOKEN. — This is the rendering of LXX.
and Vulg., and it has become almost proverbial from St. Paul’s
adaptation of it (2 Corinthians 4:13; see _New Testament Commentary_...
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אֲ֭נִי אָמַ֣רְתִּי בְ חָפְזִ֑י כָּֽל
־הָ אָדָ
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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...
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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...
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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...
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I said in my (g) haste, All men [are] liars.
(g) In my great distress I thought God would not regard man, who is
but lies and vanity, yet I overcame this temptation and felt the
contrary....
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The apostle quotes part of what is here said, by way of showing that
one and the same spirit of faith actuates all true believers, and
though men may be false, yet God abideth true, 2 Corinthians 4:13...
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11._I said in my fear _Some take the word חפז, _chaphaz, _to denote
haste or flight, and consider it as expressive of what David said when
he fled in great haste from the face of Saul. But, as it figu...
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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...
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I SAID IN MY HASTE, ALL MEN [ARE] LIARS. The sin of lying is common to
man; there is a natural proneness and propensity to it: men go astray
from the womb, speaking lies; yet such who have received th...
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I said in my haste, All men [are] liars.
Ver. 11. _I said in my haste_] In my heat, trepidation, concussion,
outburst. Saints may have such, as being but men, subject to like
passions; and as meeting...
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Psa. 116:10, 11. "Spoken; was greatly afflicted; I said in my haste,
All men are liars." The meaning seems to be this - I spake as I have
declared (verse 4), because I trusted in God. I was greatly af...
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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...
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I said in my haste, in his trembling and terror, the result of his
deep dejection, ALL MEN ARE LIARS. Forsaken by men, miserably
neglected by those from whom he expected assistance in his troubles,
he...
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10-19 When troubled, we do best to hold our peace, for we are apt to
speak unadvisedly. Yet there may be true faith where there are
workings of unbelief; but then faith will prevail; and being humble...
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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...
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Psalms 116:11 said H559 (H8804) haste H2648 (H8800) men H120 liars
H3576 (H8802)
in my -...
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Psalms 116:11
The text reveals the psalmist as having passed through the shadow of
that mood of mind to which we give the name of cynicism. The great
danger is lest the mood should pass into a habit,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The whole Psalm is one of joyous thanksgiving because of God's mercy
to the singer. He had been in deep waters of trial and affliction, but
had not been suffered to sink. He had known fierce assaults...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_I said in my haste, All men are liars._
THE DANGERS OF PESSIMISM
Pessimism is a sin, and those who yield to it cripple themselves for
the war, on one side of which are all the forces of darkness, le...
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_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...
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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
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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
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 27:1; 2 Kings 4:16; Jeremiah 9:4; Jeremiah 9:5; Psalms 31:22;...