“ I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: ”
I believed, therefore have I spoken - This, in the Septuagint and Latin Vulgate, begins a new psalm, but without any good reason. This language is borrowed by the Apostle Paul to express his conf...
(f) I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: (f) I felt all these things, and therefore was moved by faith to confess them, ( 2 Corinthians 4:13 ).
CXVI. A Song of Comfort in Affliction. There is nothing to justify the division into two Pss. ( a ) Psalms 116:1-9 , ( b ) Psalms 116:10-19 (LXX); the same theme in its double aspect is continue...
I believed . I believed[Him]. Quoted in 2 Corinthians 4:13 .
10. I have believed That his wonderful deliverance may appear the more conspicuous, he again relates the imminent danger in which he had been placed. He begins by declaring that he spake in...
I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I believed, therefere have I spoken - Distressed and afflicted as I was, I ever believed thy promises to be true; but I had great struggl...
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...
I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I believed, therefore have I spoken. As the former strophe was occupied with the deliverance, so this is taken up with the thanks...
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 co...
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 Commen...
Psalms 116:1-19 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 hi...
He Delivered My Soul Psalms 116:1-11 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 fe...
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 practical...
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:...
I believed, therefore have I spoken ,.... Here the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions, begin a new psalm, but without any foundation in the original; nor is it countenanced by...
I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: Ver. 10. I believed, therefore have I spoken ] Fundamentum et fulcrum verae spei est fides viva. Hope is the daughter of faith, but...
I have believed God's promise of deliverance; therefore have I spoken What I have now said; or, I have firmly believed, and trusted in God's almighty power, and ever watchful providence, and ther...
Grateful Acknowledgments; Devout Resolutions. 10 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: 11 I s...
I believed, to wit, God's promise of deliverance and of the kingdom made to me by Samuel, which I was confident he would perform in spite of discouragements and difficulties. Therefore have I spok...
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...
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 t...
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...
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 pr...
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 delivera...
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 pu...
2 Corinthians 4:13 ; 2 Peter 1:16 ; 2 Peter 1:21 ; Hebrews 11:1 ; Numbers 14:6-9 ; Proverbs 21:28 ; Psalms 116:3