Salmos 116:8-18

8 Porque has librado mi alma de la muerte, mis ojos de lágrimas, y mis pies de resbalar

9 Andaré delante del SEÑOR en la tierra de los vivientes

10 Creí; por tanto hablé, y fui afligido en gran manera

11 Y dije en mi apresuramiento: Todo hombre es mentiroso

12 ¿Qué pagaré al SEÑOR por todos sus beneficios para conmigo

13 Tomaré la copa de la salud, e invocaré el Nombre del SEÑOR

14 Ahora pagaré mis votos al SEÑOR delante de todo su pueblo

15 Estimada es en los ojos del SEÑOR la muerte de sus misericordiosos

16 Así es oh SEÑOR, porque yo soy tu siervo, yo soy tu siervo, hijo de tu sierva; tú rompiste mis prisiones

17 Te ofreceré sacrificio de alabanza, e invocaré el Nombre del SEÑOR

18 Ahora pagaré mis votos al SEÑOR delante de todo su pueblo

Salmos 116:8-18 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.