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Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 116:16

Psalms 116:16. 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 mother who was devoted, and did devote me to thy service. Thou hast loosed my bonds Thou hast rescued me from my enemies, whose captive and vassal I was, and therefore hast a just right to me and to my service. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Psalms 116:1-19

Psalms 115-117 Saved from deathGod was always faithful to Israel, though the Israelites were often unfaithful to him. Their sins brought God’s punishment upon them, causing their pagan neighbours to mock them with the accusation that their God was unable to help them and had deserted them (115:1-2). The Israelites reply that their God is alive and in full control. The pagan gods, by contrast, are useless, and the reason they are useless is that they are lifeless. Those who trust in them will... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Psalms 116:16

OUR DEBT OF GRATITUDE TO GOD FOR HIS DELIVERANCE"O Jehovah, truly I am thy servant:I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid;Thou hast loosed my bonds.I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving,And will call upon the name of Jehovah.I will pay my vows unto Jehovah,Yea, in the presence of all the people,In the courts of Jehovah's house,In the midst of thee, O Jerusalem.Praise ye Jehovah (Hallelujah).""I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid" (Psalms 116:16). "Thine handmaid here is... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 116:1-19

Psalms 116An unnamed writer gave thanks to God for delivering him from imminent death and for lengthening his life. He promised to praise God in the temple for these blessings. This is a hymn of individual thanksgiving.". . . if ever a psalm had the marks of spontaneity, this is surely such a one." [Note: Kidner, Psalms 73-150, p. 407.] read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 116:15-19

The death of the godly is significant to God; it is costly to Him (cf. Matthew 10:29-31; John 10:28-29). [Note: Ibid., pp. 410-11.] He does not treat their dying as trivial. Consequently, the fact that He delivered the psalmist from dying meant that He had good reason for doing so. It is interesting that Psalms 116:15, which has brought so much comfort to believers who have lost loved ones through the centuries, rests in a context of deliverance. Again the writer promised to praise God publicly... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 116:1-19

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 consisted simply of Psalms 113, or, at moat, also of Psalms 114 : see Matthew 26:30; Mark 14:26. Psalms 116 is apparently a song of thanksgiving after severe illness, but the Ps. has been used by both churches and individuals in spiritual as well as temporal deliverances. The Psalmist’s experiences... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 116:16

(16) 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 the father. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Psalms 116:1-19

Psalms 116:10 Ernest Naville, the eminent philosopher of Geneva, wrote to the Countess de Gasparin in 1892: 'I often ask myself what view, as death approaches, can be taken of their own past by men of letters who have used their pens in the service of evil passions, or have employed their talent in spreading a doubt which consumes them and the melancholy effects of which they cannot fail to recognize. People of that sort arouse within me feelings which fluctuate between scorn and pity. Happy... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 116:1-19

Psalms 116:1-19THIS 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 heaves with a groundswell of emotion after the storm. Hupfeld takes offence at its "continual alternation of petition and recognition of the Divine beneficence and deliverance, or vows of thanksgiving," but surely that very blending is natural to one just rescued and still panting from his danger.... read more

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