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 verses and a certain portion of that Psalm, to believe that the writer here refers to it? Psalms 22:15.
Verse Psalms 116:3. _THE SORROWS OF DEATH_] חבלי מות _chebley maveth_, the _cables_ or _cords of death_; alluding to their bonds and fetters during their captivity; or to the cords by which a criminal...
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 struggle - whether our views in regard to the reality of...
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...
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. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia._ App-6....
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 SORROWS OF DEATH— The Hebrew signifies, _The snares of death._ See Psalms 18:4....
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...
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 - literally, 'the cords' or 'bands of death' (note, Psalms...
116:3 bands (c-2) As Psalms 18:4 ,Psalms 18:5 , according to others 'pangs.' anguish (d-9) Lit. 'anguishes,' 'distresses.' of (e-14) Or 'found.'...
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...
HELL] RM 'the grave.' He was at the gates of death....
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
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 correspondence with Psalms 18:5, whence it is plainly...
אֲפָפ֤וּנִי ׀ חֶבְלֵי ־מָ֗וֶת וּ מְצָרֵ֣י שְׁאֹ֣ול...
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...
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...
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 with sorrow; exceeding sorrowful even unto death, in a v...
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_] See Psalms 18:4,5, _Pictura poetica ingentium peric...
_The sorrows of death compassed me_ Dangerous and deadly calamities as bitter as death: Hebrew, חבלי מות, _cheblee maveth, the cords_, or _bands of death:_ see note on Psalms 18:4. _The pains of hell...
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...
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 death, GAT HOLD UPON ME; I FOUND TROUBLE AND SORROW, exper...
GAT HOLD: _ Heb._ found me...
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...
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; either killing pains, or such agonies and horrors as dying p...
Psalms 116:3 pains H2256 death H4194 surrounded H661 (H8804) pangs H4712 Sheol H7585 hold H4672 (H8804) found...
HELL Hebrew, "Sheol," (_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). _...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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 brought. 1. Many a troubled conscience feels the sorrow...
_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
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 116:3 THE SNARES OF DEATH and THE PANGS OF SHEOL are probably the same thing. He was on the brink of dying (see vv. Psal
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...
Hebrews 5:7; Isaiah 53:3; Isaiah 53:4; Jonah 2:2; Jonah 2:3;...
The sorrows — Dangerous and deadly calamities. Pains — Such agonies and horrors, as dying persons use to feel....