Psalms 116:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds. ”

Psalms 116:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Psalms 116:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Psalms 116:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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 applie...
Psalms 116:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds. I am thy servant - Thou hast preserved me alive. I live with, for, and to Thee. I am...
Psalms 116:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 thank...
Psalms 116:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Psalms 116:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 inste...
Psalms 116:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Psalms 116:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Praise Him for All His Benefits Psalms 116:12-19 ; Psalms 117:1-2 The psalmist dwells joyfully on his enslavement to God, because in and through it he had found perfect liberty. Thou hast loo...
Psalms 116:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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

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-...
Psalms 116:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 n...
Psalms 116:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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, &amp...
Psalms 116:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 mo...
Psalms 116:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Grateful Acknowledgments; Devout Resolutions. 10 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: 11 I s...
Psalms 116:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
Psalms 116:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Psalms 116:16 - Sermon Bible Commentary

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...
Psalms 116:16 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Psalms 116:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Psalms 116:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
Psalms 116:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Psalms 116:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Psalms 116:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 33:11-13 ; Acts 27:23 ; Isaiah 61:1 ; James 1:1 ; John 12:26 ; Psalms 107:14-16 ; Psalms 11:1 ; Psalms 86:16 ; Romans 6:22

Psalms 116:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 116:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 116:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 116:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 116:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 116:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 116:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 116:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 116:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 116:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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

Psalms 116:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 116:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 116:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 116:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 116:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 116:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 116:16 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 116:16 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 116:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 116:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 116:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 116:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 116:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge