Psalm 116:16

16 Truly I am your servant, LORD; I serve you just as my mother did; you have freed me from my chains.

Psalm 116:16 in Other Translations

16 O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.

16 O Lord, I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your maidservant. You have loosed my bonds.

16 O LORD, I am your servant; yes, I am your servant, born into your household; you have freed me from my chains.

16 Oh, God, here I am, your servant, your faithful servant: set me free for your service!

16 O Jehovah, truly I am thy servant: I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid; Thou hast loosed my bonds.

16 O LORD, I am indeed your servant. I am your servant, the son of your female servant. You have freed me from my chains.

16 Lord, I am indeed Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your female servant. You have loosened my bonds.

16 Lord, I serve you. I serve you just as my mother did. You have set me free from the chains of my suffering.

Psalm 116:16 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 116:16

O Lord, truly I [am] thy servant, I [am] thy servant
Not merely by creation, and as obliged by providential favours; but by the grace of God, which made him a willing one: and he was so, not nominally only, but in reality; not as those who say Lord, Lord, but do not the will of God; whereas he served the Lord cheerfully and willingly, in righteousness and true holiness: and this he repeats for the confirmation of it, and to show his heartiness in the Lord's service, and his zealous attachment to him; and which he mentions, not as though he thought his service meritorious of anything at the hand of God; but that his being in this character was an obligation upon him to serve the Lord, and him only, and might expect his protection in it;

[and] the son of thy handmaid;
his mother was also a servant of the Lord; and had trained him up in his infancy in the nurture and admonition of the Lord; so that he was inured to it early, and could not easily depart from it;

thou hast loosed my bonds;
the bonds of affliction and death in which he was held; these were loosed, being delivered from them, ( Psalms 116:3 Psalms 116:8 ) ; and the bonds of sin, and Satan, and the law, in whose service he had been, which was no other than a bondage; but now was freed from the servitude and dominion of sin, from the captivity of Satan, and the bondage of the law; and therefore, though a servant, yet the Lord's free man.

Psalm 116:16 In-Context

14 I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people.

15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his faithful servants.

16 Truly I am your servant, LORD; I serve you just as my mother did; you have freed me from my chains.

17 I will sacrifice a thank offering to you and call on the name of the LORD.

18 I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people,

Cross References

• 1. Psalms 119:125; Psalms 143:12
• 2. S Psalms 86:16
• 3. S Job 12:18