Psalms 116:3

Hebrews 5:7; Isaiah 53:3; Isaiah 53:4; Jonah 2:2; Jonah 2:3; Luke 22:44; Mark 14:33-36; Psalms 18:4-6; Psalms 32:3; Psalms 32:4; Psalms 38:6; Psalms 88:6; Psalms 88:7

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The sorrows of death - What an expression! We know of no intenser sorrows pertaining to this world than those which we associate with the dying s...
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

sorrows . cords. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for the pains produced by them. hell . Sheol. See App-35. gat hold. Figu...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 689 THANKSGIVING FOR DELIVERANCE Psalms 116:1-7 . I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because he ha...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. The sorrows of death - חבלי מות chebley maveth...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The sorrows of death— The Hebrew signifies, The snares of death. See Psalms 18:4-5 .
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. The sorrows of death compassed me - li...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hell] RM 'the grave.' He was at the gates of death.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The pains of hell. — Or, oppressions of Sheôl, if we retain the text. But a very slight change in a single letter brings the clause into closer c...
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...
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 Ps...
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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

If Psalms 22:1 be, as it is universally allowed by the church to be, prophetical of Christ, is there not a sufficient agreement between these verse...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The sorrows of death compassed me ,.... Christ, of whom David was a type, was a man of sorrows all his days; and in the garden he was surrounded wit...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. Ver. 3. The sorrows of death compassed me ]...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The sorrows of death compassed me Dangerous and deadly calamities as bitter as death: Hebrew, חבלי מות, cheblee maveth, the cords , or bands of d...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Grateful Acknowledgments. 1 I love the L ORD , because he hath heard...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The sorrows of death; dangerous and deadly calamities, as bitter as death. Or, the cords of death. Of hell; or, of the grave; or, of death; eithe...
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...
Scofield Reference Notes

hell Hebrew, "Sheol," ( See Scofield) - ( Habakkuk 2:5 ).
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 116:1 . I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. You cannot help loving God if he has heard your prayers. Hav...
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 t...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

I knew a godly woman who, when she was very sick, would always say, «Read me the 116 th Psalm.» It is deservedly a great favourite with many experi...
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 v...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

We have read this Psalm many times, and have often felt it to be a photograph of our own spiritual experience; but we will, on this occasion, read it...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 116:1 . I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Every answered prayer should make us love the Lord, and esp...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

We have read this Psalm many times, let us read it now, not regarding it so much as the language of the psalmist uttered thousands of years ago, as o...
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, o...
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 de...
The Biblical Illustrator

The sorrows of death compassed me. To souls in agony I. First, here is the wretched condition into which many a poor awakened soul has been bro...
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 litu...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The sorrows, literally, "the cords," of death compassed me, as in a net, and the pains, the oppressions, or straits, of hell, of the realm of d...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The sorrows — Dangerous and deadly calamities. Pains — Such agonies and horrors, as dying persons use to feel.

³ The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 116:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Scofield Reference Notes

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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