Psalms 116:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

I will walk Hebrew, אתהלךְ, ethhalleck, I will set myself to walk; before the Lord I determine, in the strength of divine grace, to set him before me; to live as in his presence, and as under his eye; to speak and act in a manner becoming his presence, and the relation in which I stand to him as his servant and worshipper, his son and heir; to walk worthy of him unto all pleasing. It is the psalmist's promise and resolution, in return for the blessings acknowledged in the preceding verse. In the land of the living Among living men in this world. Observe, reader, the land of the living is a land of mercy, which we ought to be very thankful for; it is a land of opportunity, which we ought to improve; and the consideration that we are in this land should engage and quicken us to walk before God.

Psalms 116:9

9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.