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Psalm 116:4-14

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4 Then 1I called upon the name of the LORD: "O LORD, I beseech You, 2save my life!"
5 3Gracious is the LORD, and 4righteous; Yes, our God is 5compassionate.
6 The LORD preserves 6the simple; I was 7brought low, and He saved me.
7 Return to your 8rest, O my soul, For the LORD has 9dealt bountifully with you.
8 For You have 10rescued my soul from death, My eyes from tears, My feet from stumbling.
9 I shall walk before the LORD In the 11land of the living.
10 I 12believed when I said, "I am 13greatly afflicted."
11 I 14said in my alarm, "15All men are liars."
12 What shall I 16render to the LORD For all His 17benefits toward me?
13 I shall lift up the 18cup of salvation And 19call upon the name of the LORD.
14 I shall 20pay my vows to the LORD, Oh may it be 21in the presence of all His people.
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Psalm 116:4-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 116

Theodoret applies this psalm to the distresses of the Jews in the times of the Maccabees under Antiochus Epiphanes; and R. Obadiah interprets some passages in it of the Grecians of those times; but it rather seems to have been written by David on account of some troubles of his, out of which he was delivered; and refers either to the times of Saul, and the persecutions he endured from him, particularly when he was beset round about by him and his men in the wilderness of Maon, 1Sa 23:26, to which he may have respect Ps 116:3. The inscription of the psalm in the Syriac version is,

``the progress of the new people returning to the Christian worship, as a child to understanding: and as to the letter, it was said when Saul stayed at the door of the cave where David lay hid with his men;''

see 1Sa 24:4. But since mention is made of Jerusalem, Ps 116:19, where the psalmist would praise the Lord for his deliverance, which as yet was not in his hands nor in the hands of the Israelites, but of the Jebusites; some have thought it was written on account of the conspiracy of Absalom against him, and who, hearing that Ahithophel was among the conspirators, said the words related in Ps 116:11, it is very probable it was composed after the death of Saul, and when he was settled in the kingdom, as Jarchi observes, and was delivered out of the hands of all his enemies; and very likely much about the same time as the eighteenth psalm was, which begins in the same manner, and has some expressions in it like to what are in this. David was a type of Christ, and some apply this psalm to him.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Cross References 21

  • 1. Psalms 18:6; Psalms 118:5
  • 2. Psalms 17:13; Psalms 22:20
  • 3. Psalms 86:15; Psalms 103:8
  • 4. Ezra 9:15; Nehemiah 9:8; Psalms 119:137; Psalms 145:17; Jeremiah 12:1; Daniel 9:14
  • 5. Exodus 34:6
  • 6. Psalms 19:7; Proverbs 1:4
  • 7. Psalms 79:8; Psalms 142:6
  • 8. Jeremiah 6:16; Matthew 11:29
  • 9. Psalms 13:6; Psalms 142:7
  • 10. Psalms 49:15; Psalms 56:13; Psalms 86:13
  • 11. Psalms 27:13
  • 12. 2 Corinthians 4:13
  • 13. Psalms 88:7
  • 14. Psalms 31:22
  • 15. Psalms 62:9; Romans 3:4
  • 16. 2 Chronicles 32:25; 1 Thessalonians 3:9
  • 17. Psalms 103:2
  • 18. Psalms 16:5
  • 19. Psalms 80:18; Psalms 105:1
  • 20. Psalms 50:14; Psalms 116:18
  • 21. Psalms 22:25

Footnotes 3

  • [a] Or "deliver my soul"
  • [b] Lit "lands"
  • [c] Lit "upon"
Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. www.Lockman.org

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