Psalms 116:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. ”

Psalms 116:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For thou hast delivered my soul from death - My life. Thou hast saved me from death. This is such language as would be used by one who had been dangerously ill, and who had been restored again to...
Psalms 116:8 - 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 116:8 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 690 GRATEFUL RECOLLECTIONS Psalms 116:8-9 . Thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling: I will walk before the Lord in the land of the livi...
Psalms 116:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. Thou hast delivered my soul from death - Thou hast rescued my life from the destruction to which it was e...
Psalms 116:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling - alludi...
Psalms 116:8 - 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 116:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Falling. — Or, stumbling. (See Psalms 56:13 , the original of this passage.)
Psalms 116:8 - 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 116:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Psalms 116:8 - 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 116:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

In every point of view, these are sweet words indeed! Jesus is the rest wherewith he will cause the weary to rest; he is their refreshing; and all the invitations of Jesus are to this effect, that co...
Psalms 116:8 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

GOD’S DELIVERANCE ‘Thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.’ Psalms 116:8 If we were asked to name the evils from which we should most wish to be...
Psalms 116:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For thou hast delivered my soul from death ,.... From a corporeal death, when his life was in danger, surrounded by Saul's army, in the hand of the Philistines at Gath, and when his son rebelled aga...
Psalms 116:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, [and] my feet from falling. Ver. 8. For thou hast delivered my soul, &c. ] The better to excite himself to true thankfulness h...
Psalms 116:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Return unto thy rest, O my soul Unto that tranquillity of mind, and cheerful confidence in God's providence and promises, which thou didst once enjoy. Repose thyself in God; seek not for that rest...
Psalms 116:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Grateful Acknowledgments. 1 I love the L ORD , because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. 2 Because he ha...
Psalms 116:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

My soul; myself. From falling, to wit, into mischief, and the pit of destruction.
Psalms 116:8 - 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 116:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Psalms 116:8 - 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 116:8 - 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 116:8 - 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 116:8 - 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 116:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 25:8 ; Isaiah 38:5 ; Judges 1:24 ; Psalms 37:24 ; Psalms 56:13 ; Psalms 86:13 ; Psalms 94:18 ; Revelation 21:4 ; Revelation 7:17

Psalms 116:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 116:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 116:8 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Psalms 116:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 116:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 116:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 116:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 116:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 116:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 116:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 116:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 116:8 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 116:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 116:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 116:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 116:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 116:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 116:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 116:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 116:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 116:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 116:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 116:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 116:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge