the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
My voice and my supplications. My supplicating voice. Figure of speech Hendiadys. App-6. So some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "the voice of my supplication".
PSALM CXVI _The psalmist praises God for his deliverance from thraldom,_ _which he compares to death and the grave_, 1-9. _The exercises through which he had passed_, 10, 11. _His gratitude for th...
I LOVE THE LORD - The Hebrew rather means, “I love, because the Lord hath heard,” etc. That is, the psalmist was conscious of love; he felt it glowing in his soul; his heart was full of that special j...
Psalms 116 The Praise of Israel for Deliverance from Death _ 1. The Deliverance-Experience (Psalms 116:1)_ 2. Thanksgiving (Psalms 116:10) Redeemed Israel expresseth in this Psalm her love to Jeho...
CXVI. A SONG OF COMFORT IN AFFLICTION. There is nothing to justify the division into two Pss. (_a_) Psalms 116:1, (_b_) Psalms 116:10 (LXX); the same theme in its double aspect is continued throughout...
DISCOURSE: 689 THANKSGIVING FOR DELIVERANCE Psalms 116:1. I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him...
_The Psalmist professeth his love and duty to God for his deliverance: he studieth to be thankful._ THIS psalm was probably written by David upon his deliverance from Absalom's rebellion; though some...
PSALMS 116 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Individual Thanks for Deliverance from Peril of Death. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 116:1-4, With Profession of Love the Psalmist Describes his Peril and Prayer. Stanza I...
I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Psalms 116:1.-The Psalmist's love to Yahweh, and resolution to call upon Him all his life, for having heard his prayer (Psalms...
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 con...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ HE SAVED ME! PSALMS 116 Jesus said, "If the Son (of God) makes you free, you will be really free!" (John 8
I LOVE THE LORD. — Besides this rendering, where _Jehovah_ is supplied as an object, this poet being given to use verbs without an object (see Psalms 116:2; Psalms 116:10), there are two other possibl...
אָ֭הַבְתִּי כִּֽי ־יִשְׁמַ֥ע ׀ יְהוָ֑ה אֶת ־קֹ֝ולִ֗י...
Psalms 116:1 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 his song heav...
HE DELIVERED MY SOUL Psalms 116:1 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 fear of egotism...
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 practicall...
I (a) love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice [and] my supplications. (a) He grants that no pleasure is so great as to feel God's help in our need, neither that anything more stirs up our love...
Alleluia. This word is found at the end of the last psalm, in Hebrew. (Haydock) --- The captives invite all to thank God for their delivery, which was a most striking figure of the world's redemption,...
CONTENTS This Psalm contains some very gracious breathings of a devout soul; whether, by the spirit of prophecy, the sacred writer penned them as the suited language of Christ in the days of his flesh...
1_I have loved, because Jehovah will hear the voice of my supplication. _At the very commencement of this psalm David avows that he was attracted with the sweetness of God’s goodness, to place his hop...
Psalms 116 celebrates this deliverance when they were at the very point of death. Jehovah had heard them, and they would walk before the Lord in the land of the living. In this view it is a continual...
I LOVE THE LORD,.... As the Messiah, David's antitype, did; of which he gave the fullest proof by his obedience to his will; and as David, the man after God's own heart, did, and as every good man doe...
_I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice [and] my supplications._ Ver. 1. _I love the Lord_] Heb. I love, because the Lord hath heard, &c., _Vex abrupta et ecliptica,_ an abrupt concise eclip...
_I love the Lord_ Hebrew, _I love, because the Lord hath heard my voice._ “The soul, transported with gratitude and love, seems, at first, to express her affection without declaring its object, as thi...
I love the Lord because He hath heard my voice and my supplications, the fact that God attended to His prayer and delivered him fills his heart with grateful love....
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 publi...
1-9 We have many reasons for loving the Lord, but are most affected by his loving-kindness when relieved out of deep distress. When a poor sinner is awakened to a sense of his state, and fears that h...
PSALM 116 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm contains a solemn thanksgiving to God for a glorious deliverance from grievous and dangerous calamities; as also from great perplexities and terrors of mind arising f...
Psalms 116:1 love H157 (H8804) LORD H3068 heard H8085 (H8799) voice H6963 supplications H8469 love -...
Psalms 116:1 (1) There are multitudes who are utterly careless about God, in whose minds He exists as the object neither of one feeling nor another, who never think of Him so as either to love Him or...
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 especially those prayers that come up from our heart when...
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. Have you tried him? If you have, you can join with David...
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 to G...
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 experienced Christians. May the Holy Spirit apply it to our...
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 goo...
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 from one special point of view. Please notice that...
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 our own language at this moment. Psalms 116:1. _I l...
CONTENTS: Thanksgiving for the many gracious deliverances God had wrought. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: The experiences we have had of God's goodness in answer to prayer are great encourag...
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 praye...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 116:1. This is a hymn of personal thanksgiving for God’s care. The specific circumstance is a narrow escape from death (vv. Psalms 116:3
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 D...
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 deliverance. Hen...
1 John 4:19; 1 John 5:2; 1 John 5:3; 1 Samuel 1:26; Genesis 35:2;...