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Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 116:9-11

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 . read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 116:12-14

Reader! do observe: The question is, What shall I give unto the Lord? under a sense of his mercies. A strange answer is returned. I will receive the cup of salvation. Yes! Jesus and his gospel are the free unmerited gift of God in Christ; not held forth for our purchase, but for our acceptance. The bountiful Giver needs not the gifts of his creatures. Besides, the things themselves are too costly to be purchased. Precious Jesus! thou drankest the cup of trembling. And thy people are called to... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 116:15

This verse comes as in a parenthesis. It may serve to comfort the faithful in the recollection. And as the death of the faithful is precious, so their lives are. Matthew 10:29-30 . Reader! if such be the preciousness of the death of saints, what must have been, and is, and ever will be, the inestimable valuable price of His death, whose death is the life of the world? Lamb of God! with what a price hast thou redeemed thy people! 1 Peter 1:18-19 . read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 116:16-19

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 42:1-4 , compared with Matthew 12:8-21 ; Luke 1:48; Luke 1:48 ; Isaiah 7:14 ; Acts 2:24 ; Isaiah 53:6 . And secondly and subordinately, we may, in consequence of our union with Christ, take up the same sweet words, and looking up to God in Christ, pay our vows, as being loosed by Jesus' stripes and death... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 116:19

REFLECTIONS My soul! canst thou say, I love the Lord? Yes! if thou hast seen his loveliness, his beauty, his love to thee, and regard for thee, and that thou hast an interest in him. Pause over the interesting thought! Hast thou seen God in Christ, hearing thy prayers, granting thy request, and giving thee strength and confidence in his salvation? Hast thou seen his suitableness as a Savior, so as not only to discover transcendent excellencies in Jesus, but all those excellencies and... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 116:1-9

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 he must soon sink under the just wrath of God, then he finds trouble and sorrow. But let all such call upon the Lord to deliver their souls, and they will find him gracious and true to his promise. Neither ignorance nor guilt will hinder their salvation, when they put their trust in the Lord. Let us... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 116:10-19

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 humbled for our distrust of God's word, we shall experience his faithfulness to it. What can the pardoned sinner, or what can those who have been delivered from trouble or distress, render to the Lord for his benefits? We cannot in any way profit him. Our best is unworthy of his acceptance; yet we ought... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Psalms 116:1-19

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 public acknowledgment of his debt to Jehovah. v. 1. 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. v. 2. Because He hath inclined His ear unto me, in the attitude of willing attention,... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Psalms 116:1-19

Psalms 116:01          I love the Lord, because he hath heardMy voice and my supplications.2      Because he hath inclined his ear unto me,Therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.3      The sorrows of death compassed me,And the pains of hell gat hold upon me:I found trouble and sorrow.4      Then called I upon the name of the Lord;O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.5      Gracious is the Lord, and righteous;Yea our God is merciful.6      The Lord preserveth the simple:I was... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Psalms 116:8-9

Psalms EXPERIENCE, RESOLVE, AND HOPE Psa_116:8 - Psa_116:9 . This is a quotation from an earlier psalm, with variations which are interesting, whether we suppose that the Psalmist was quoting from memory and made them unconsciously, or whether, as is more probable, he did so, deliberately and for a purpose. The variations are these. The words in the original psalm Psa_56:1 according to the Revised Version, read, ‘Thou hast delivered my soul from death; hast Thou not delivered my feet from... read more

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