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O LORD, TRULY I AM THY SERVANT - In view of thy mercy in delivering me
from death, I feel the obligation to give myself to thee. I see in the
fact that thou hast thus delivered me, evidence that I am...
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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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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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O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of
thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
O LORD, TRULY I AM THY SERVANT - `O Lord, I pray thee, (accept,
graciously my thanksgivin...
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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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THY SERVANT, AND THE SON OF THINE HANDMAID. — Comp. Psalms 86:16.
Not only himself but his family were in the covenant, and, as very
commonly in the East, the mother is selected for mention instead of...
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אָֽנָּ֣ה יְהוָה֮ כִּֽי ־אֲנִ֪י
עַ֫בְדֶּ֥ךָ אֲֽנִי...
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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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PRAISE HIM FOR ALL HIS BENEFITS
Psalms 116:12; Psalms 117:1
The psalmist dwells joyfully on his enslavement to God, because in and
through it he had found perfect liberty. _Thou hast loosed my bonds_...
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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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Here again we may safely perceive Christ the mediator, the servant of
Jehovah, the son of the handmaid, and lie that was bound for his
people. whom Jehovah loosed. See those scriptures, Isaiah 42:1,
c...
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16_Come, O Jehovah! because I am thy servant. _As, in the former
verse, he gloried that in him God had given an example of the paternal
regard which he has for the faithful, so here he applies, in an...
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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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O LORD, TRULY I [AM] THY SERVANT, I [AM] THY SERVANT,.... Not merely
by creation, and as obliged by providential favours; but by the grace
of God, which made him a willing one: and he was so, not nomi...
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O LORD, truly I [am] thy servant; I [am] thy servant, [and] the son of
thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
Ver. 16. _O Lord, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant_] _Euge, O
Iehovah, &c., _...
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_O Lord, truly I am thy servant_ This is a thankful acknowledgment of
his great obligations to God, whereby he was in duty bound to be his
perpetual servant. _The son of thy handmaid_ The son of a mot...
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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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O Lord, truly I am Thy servant; I am Thy servant and the son of Thine
handmaid, wherefore, as a home-born servant, he claims the privileges
of God's covenant love toward His people. THOU HAST LOOSED M...
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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 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 grea...
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Psalms 116:16 LORD H3068 truly H577 servant H5650 servant H5650 son
H1121 maidservant H519 loosed H6605 (H8765) bo
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Psalms 116:16
There is service in the very fact and nature of existence. A man whose
heart, and mind, and soul are right with God, whose affections are
really given to Him, whose intellect grasps Him...
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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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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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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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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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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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_O Lord, truly I am Thy servant._
GOD’S SERVICE
This_, _with the following verses, may be thus paraphrased: Blessed
Lord, from the sense of what Thou hast done for me, I cannot but
declare myself inf...
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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 116:12 WHAT SHALL I RENDER TO THE LORD FOR ALL
HIS BENEFITS TO ME? The answer is, acts of public worship. The
personal deliverance is a benefit to the whole people, and the entire...
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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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2 Chronicles 33:11; Acts 27:23; Isaiah 61:1; James 1:1; John 12:26;...