Psalms 116:2

Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. BECAUSE HE HATH INCLINED HIS EAR UNTO ME - answering to the second clause of , "because, He hath heard my voice, and my supplications." THEREFORE WILL I CALL UPON HIM AS LONG AS I LIVE - answering to the first clause of . The sure proof of 'loving the Lord' is 'calling upon Him all our days,' both with prayers in time of trouble (Psalms 116:3) and with thanksgivings for salvation vouchsafed to us (Psalms 116:13) - literally, "in my days." So...

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 he must soon sink under the just wrath of God, then he finds trouble and sorrow. But let all such call upon the Lord to deliver their souls, and they will find him gracious and true to his promise. Neither ignorance nor guilt will hinder their salvation, when they put their trust in the Lord. Let us all speak of God as we have found him; and have we ever found him otherwise than just and good? It is of his mercies that we are not consumed. Let those who labour and are heavy laden come to him, that they may find rest to their souls; and if at all drawn from their rest, let them haste to return, remembering how bountifully the Lord has dealt with them. We should deem ourselves bound to walk as...

Verse Psalms 116:2. _BECAUSE HE HATH INCLINED HIS EAR_] The psalmist represents himself to be so sick and weak, that he could scarcely speak. The Lord, in condescension to this weakness, is here considered as _bowing down his ear to the mouth of the feeble_ _suppliant_, that he may receive every word of his prayer. _THEREFORE WILL I CALL UPON_ HIM] I have had such blessed success in my application to him, that I purpose to invoke him as long as I shall live. He that prays much will be emboldened to pray more, because none can supplicate the throne of grace in vain....

BECAUSE HE HATH INCLINED HIS EAR UNTO ME - See the notes at Psalms 5:1. Because he has been gracious to me, and has heard my prayers. This is a pood reason for serving God, or for devoting ourselves to him, but it is not the only reason. We ought to worship and serve God whether he hears our prayers or not; whether he sends joy or sorrow; whether we are favored with prosperity, or are sunk in deep affliction. People have worshipped God even when they have had no evidence that he heard their prayers; and some of the most pure acts of devotion on earth are those which come from the very depths of darkness and sorrow. THEREFORE WILL I CALL UPON HIM AS LONG AS I LIVE - Margin, as in Hebrew, “in my days.” Encouraged by the past, I will continue to call upon him in the future. I will retain a firm faith in the doctrine that he hea

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. Hengstenberg regards it as composed for use at a festival service shortly after the return from the Captivity. Others adhere to the old Hebrew tradition, which ascribed it to Hezekiah, and considered it to have been written on the occasion of his deliverance from death, as narrated in Isaiah 38:1. Many resemblances are traced between the phraseology of the psalm and expressions attributed to Hezekiah in Isaiah 37:1; Isaiah 38:1....

BECAUSE HE HATH INCLINED HIS EAR UNTO ME,.... Not as hard of hearing, for his ear is not heavy that it cannot hear; he is quick of hearing, and his ears are always open to the righteous; it rather denotes his readiness to hear; he hearkens and hears, he listens to what his people say, and hears them at once, and understands them, though ever so broken and confused; when their prayers are but like the chatterings of a crane or swallow, or only expressed in sighs and groans, and even without a voice; when nothing is articulately pronounced: moreover, this shows condescension in him; he bows his ear as a rattler to a child, he stoops as being above them, and inclines his ear to them. THEREFORE WILL I CALL UPON HIM AS LONG AS I LIVE; or "in my days" d; in days of adversity and affliction, for help and relief; in days of prosperity, with thankfulness for favours received; every day I live, a...

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 and thousands of others in confessing that he is a prayer-hearing God, and therefore you love him. I find the verse might be read, «I love the Lord, because he hears.» He is always hearing. I am always speaking to him, and he is always hearing me, and therefore I love him. Can you imagine a better reason for love? Psalms 116:2. _Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live._ «He hath inclined his ear» stooped down, as it were, as you do to a sick person to catch his faintest word. «He hath inclined his ear.» He has heard my

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 Jehovah for His gracious deliverances, for answered prayer and for His salvation. They were, during the great tribulation, as a faithful remnant; surrounded by the sorrows of death, the pains of Sheol were upon them. Death stared them in the face. Then they cried to the Lord, and, as of old, He heard them and sent deliverance. He dealt bountifully with them, delivered them from death, the eyes from tears, the feet from falling. And now they serve Him, taking the cup of salvation and performing their vo

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. PSALMS 116:2_ b._ Read, and I will call on the name of Yahweh. Psalms 116:3. _Cf._ Psalms 18:4 f. Psalms 116:6. simple: in a good sense: contrast...

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 as long as I live. The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the Lord; O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful! The Lord preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me. Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee._ THE abruptness of this psalm shews, that it was the fruit of much previous meditation: the writer of it had been “musing in his heart, till at last the fire kindled, and he spake with his tongue.” It begins, “I love:” and, though our translators had not supplied