If it is a bad thought, it must do a bad work by getting expression; for that expression starts bad thoughts in others. Hengstenberg there fore proposes to regard the phrase as a mere metaphor, like the "cup of trembling" (Isaiah 51:17, Isaiah 51:22), and understands the psalmist to mean that he will gladly and thankfully receive God's mercy vouchsafed to him, and thus show his gratitude for it. Though no man lays it to heart when the righteous perish, God will make it to appear that he lays it to heart. "the simple-minded"those who are without guile or artifice (comp. Salem Media Group. It is not only piety, but truth, to say, "I was brought low, and he helped me" (Psalms 116:6). The precious blood of Christ is glorified. What a cup this is! When we have personal regard for them, how patiently we listen. Still, the grammatical construction is unusual, and has caused the suggestion of an emendation. Our life is a complicated mosaic, and each day new shapes and new colors are added. The must serious "trouble" (Psalms 116:3) which worries and perplexes the busy man is found in being laid aside from his activities; it is nothing less than "sorrow" to him to feel that his work is undone, and that he does not know how provision is to be made for his home. 3 The cords of death Every year is bringing us richer stores of knowledge. Thus, by fervent prayer, will he keep in communion with God, and look to him day by day for all needed grace. Lifelong gratitude and praise are promised by Hezekiah to God in Isaiah 38:20. III. -- It may probably allude to the libation offering, Numbers 28:7 ; for the three last verses seem to intimate that the Psalmist was now at the temple, offering the meat offering, drink offering, and sacrifices to the Lord. The cup here spoken of by the Psalmist, says Cresswell, was probably used by the master of a Hebrew family at an entertainment in his own house, at which the remainder of the victims was eaten, after he had offered (Leviticus 7:11, etc.) He will pay his vows of thanksgiving, His saints are dear to him. Psalm 116 is a prayer of thanksgiving. And it is well for the after-life of the soul that there should be deep conviction wrought by the Holy Spirit, for then there is likely to be a permanent work done, and not a mere ephemeral and superficial one, such as is all too common. We may want to trust, if we can. Psalms 116 Praise ye the Lord. Our text says that the dying of our friends is so precious to God. David's sufferings were typical of Christ's, and we, in ours, have communion with his, and his cup was indeed a cup of salvation. Compare the comment on Psalms 116:14, whereof this is a repetition. Parenthetic and obscure. Psalms 116:13 What Bible Debates Inspired Martin Luther's 95 Theses? How impatient! Web116 1 I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. 1 I love the LORD, who listened. The writer calls on all those present (see Psalms 116:18) to join him in singing praise to God (comp. Religion is heart-feeling. Psalm 116 Commentary - Matthew Henry Commentary Psalms 116 - Coffman's Commentaries on the Bible Let us not therefore be harsh in censuring others, but carefully watch over ourselves when we are in trouble, Psalms 39:1-3. 4. Note, Those that believe with the heart must confess with the mouth, for the glory of God, the encouragement of others, and to evidence their own sincerity, Romans 10:10; Acts 9:19; Acts 9:20. And how evident. Calling upon the "Name." III. There is one fitting answer: "I will pay thee my vows." We should deem ourselves bound to walk as in his presence. "I will pay my vows," etc. Familiar as we are with death, its ways always seem strange to us. I not only begin the better life, but go and keep on in it. Where does the soul find its present rest? Here he expresses his praise and gratitude to God. He certainly intended, as soon as his cure was complete, to "go up to the house of the Lord" (2 Kings 20:8; Isaiah 38:22). (Psalms 116:5-8.) II. Through prayer (Psalms 116:4). If till now you have never been convicted of sin, be thankful for your soul-distress, remembering its gracious intent. The guileful man has no particular need of God, and, indeed, he sometimes finds him in his way, and so is aroused to an active antagonism. II. 2. One reason why we should never more come to a fellow-mortal for a favour is, we have received so many already. 2. WebPsalms 116:13, Psalms 116:14. When David had brought the ark of God into the tabernacle, they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, which being finished, "he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine." ], It is difficult to tell if the writer used "cup" in a literal or in a figurative sense. God was always faithful to Israel, though the Israelites were often unfaithful to him. All through the dark time in the proving-house he wanted to keep trust if he could. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. The form which the giving takes in this representation is the hand of God presenting a cup. Secondly, The cup of consolation: "I will receive the benefits God bestows upon me as from his hand, and taste his love in them, as that which is the portion not only of my inheritance in the other world, but of my cup in this." 1. The word "precious" denotes also the mind of God in contemplating the death of his saints. And will call upon the Name of the Lord (comp. Observe, 1. II. Who ever repented of having served the Lord too well, or thought he had done so sufficiently? The blood of the martyrs has been ever the seed of the Church. There is a tone of great gladness of heartperhaps we may detect some exuberance of spiritin this outpouring. Psalms 104:1-35; Psalms 105:1-45; Psalms 106:1-48; Psalms 113:1-9; Psalms 115:1-18; Psalms 117:1-2.). God's plan in our life is not at present offered to our comprehension. And yet that we find beginners in the Christian life, and even experienced Christians, often do, especially when what God provides is not just "according to their mind." They know that he will bless them and their descendants after them, for he is the almighty Creator (12-15). Rather, it is a matter of deep concern to him. God's salvation means this for us. Our soul-testing often comes in the discipline of disappointment and failure. SPIRITUAL SACRIFICES AS PRAYERS. Cup of salvation. 4 Then I called on the name of the LORD: LORD, save me! The same verb is used here as in Isaiah 38:14, where it is translated "fail" ("mine eyes fail"). I was, however, too sorely afflicted to give utterance to my feeling. The faith of the best of saints is not perfect, nor always alike strong and active. (1.) The cup of salvation, symbolized by the eucharistic cup of the Passover Supper. 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. Verse Psalms 116:13. WE MIGHT FILL UP THE TEXT IN MANY WAYS. I will take the cup of salvation - Compare the notes at Psalms 11:6. Mine eyes from tears. Sometimes Death gathers about him circumstances which add peculiar painfulness to the death-scenes. The psalmist has been in deep trouble before, down to the point of death (v. 3). They form ideas on first impressions; and before there is any opportunity of weighing them and criticizing them, they speak them out, and act them out. And certainly they are unworthy of the enjoyment, I say not of the riches of the world, but of the light of the sun and the air by which we breathe and live, who would rob the Author of them of the small return which so legitimately belongs to him. That of a grateful heart, first and chief of all. It is used frequently in a like sense, and means: 1. and call on the name of the Lord. There is no pressure put on men equal to that of heaped-up daily responsibilities. And they meant for him, not burning flames or purgatorial fires, but exclusion from the presence of God (see Psalms 115:17, and parallels; Psalms 31:22, etc.). 3. So far there is something which we cannot help. "My soul from death." There has come peace and joy in God instead of anguish of soul. What return can the psalmist make? There is a feature in the early Jewish ritual which it is difficult to retain in the Christian. Our life is a worked pattern of various colors; the pattern is large, and it scarcely comes out until it is nearly complete. Do we keep the memory of God's restorations of imperiled life? Thanksgiving was always most appropriately offered in the temple courts, where close at hand dwelt the mysterious presence of God, and where God had appointed that his worshippers should appear before him. The psalmists cup of salvation is the counterpart to the cup of wrath, representing Gods judgment of sin and His wrath reserved for the wicked to drink ( Psalm 75:8; Isaiah 51:22; Jeremiah 25:1516; Ezekiel 23:3134 ). That made all the difference. Third,because although they took my all, it was not much. We think of them as dead, gone from earthly love and fellowship. The apparent approach of death. Acceptable to God, the great Spirit, not as thanksgiving, which may be as much a formality as a sacrifice, but as the sign of the thankful, loving heart, which gives itself to God in the thanks giving. In perilous disease we may have been to the "border-land;" but, then, the border-land is a very wide space, and we have not really felt what it is for the soul fully to face the eternal, The struggle must be a great and sore one, for even the best of men, when they come to die, have a time during which their faith seems to fail, and their hope to die out. Passing thought passes into oblivion. David was a king, and yet he glories in this, that he was God's servant. Psalms 18:4, where the same expression is used). If God has been bountiful to us, the least we can do in return is to be bountiful to the poor, Psalms 16:2; Psalms 16:3. Our text calls death "precious." 3. I will take the cup of salvation; I will offer the drink-offerings appointed by the law, in token of thankfulness to God, and rejoice in God's goodness to me. Lord, I was born in thy house; I am the son of thine handmaid, and therefore thine. If we have received kindness from a man like ourselves, we tell him that we hope we shall never trouble him again; but God is pleased to reckon the prayers of his people an honour to him, and a delight, and no trouble; and therefore, in gratitude for former mercies, we must seek to him for further mercies, and continue to call upon him. What the mysterious conflicts of the time of death are none of us can know, perhaps none of us can imagine. The psalm is the utterance of the glad gratitude of some devout Israelite on his deliverance from mortal sickness. When this dual life is created, there must be conflict between the man of trust and the man of despair. (2.) "Return," i.e; "to thy state of tranquility, the condition in which thou wast before the imminent danger showed itself." 14 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people. We take the cup of the Lord . In evidence of our obedience to him. Sermon on the Lord's supper. The sympathies of Nain, the tears of Bethany, show us our God. Many resemblances are traced between the phraseology of the psalm and expressions attributed to Hezekiah in Isaiah 37:1-38; Isaiah 38:1-22. Professor Cheyne translates, "I was confident that I should speak thus;" i.e. "I WILL TAKE THE CUP OF SALVATION." Perhaps it was a literal part of his thank offering to God. II. It is so easy for a despondent soul to argue that since one trusted friend has failed, all must be untrustworthy. The pains of death surrounded me: In the WebPsalms 116:13. The inquiry before us implies remembrance of. This is not the "simple" of the Book of Proverbsthe young, inexperienced, susceptible souls, who are only too easily led astray. The mind can only work through the body as its agent, and is as dependent on its condition as the workman on the state of his tools. It has been such to God. ), 2. A thinker finds rest in truth. II. Isaiah 38:12-17). A SONG OF COMFORT IN the sacrifice of a peace-offering for a thanksgiving; when, lifting up the cup of wine in his hand, he called upon the name of the Lord, giving him thanks. It, is a great mercy to be the children of godly parents, as it obliges us to duty and is pleadable with God for mercy. Goodness is manifested in all God's Others, again, take it, as do we, as describing, in vivid, impressive way, the experience of a soul that has known deep distress, but has been delivered therefrom by God's exceeding grace. Many have seen in it the setting forth of the sufferings of our Lord, and have applied the psalm generally to him. 1. We can just be God's servants, in all holy love and obedience.R.T. He has personally experienced Gods compassion and goodness (5-7). So is all real prayer. So, the cup of trembling, an abundance of misery; the cup of salvation, an abundance of happiness. WebTwo ways men came to be servants. This being a symbol of their deliverance from Egyptian thraldom, is for that reason here called the cup of salvation (382) The term to call upon, signifies to celebrate the name of God; and this he expresses more plainly, subsequently, by saying that he would pay his vows in the assembly of the faithful, the sanctuary alone being the place where sacrifices could be offered. BY SCRIPTURE. A problem to solve is given to every dependent moral creature, and to the human race. I. And call upon the name of the Lord. But it need not be. By disobedience. And call upon the Name of the Lord (comp. But is In his over whelming gratitude for this deliverance, he yields himself entirely to God. This may seem weakness; and it sometimes is weakness. How it was won. 3. What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me? The loving Father. And he repeats it, as that which he took pleasure in the thoughts of and which he was resolved to abide by: "I am thy servant, I am thy servant. That is, in the spirit and act of thankfulness. WebIt is of his mercies that we are not consumed. I am "the son of thine handmaid." Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. There is nothing that he cannot do, or thinks he cannot do. With out him there is nothing that abideth. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. The following verses contain the answer which the same spirit gives. WebWe cannot in any way profit him. Nor can it introduce us into a state of mere unconsciousness. Until sin is gone, it is better for us to keep the sorrows and the sicknesses and even the dyings; for these are God's agents for stamping upon sin its true character, and he makes them to be but the anguish of our deliverance from sin's power and dominion. The Christian can flu the term "salvation" with higher and holier meanings. Of the saints of God alone is it said that their deaths are "precious in," etc. "My feet from falling." The amount is, that the faithful need not be greatly perplexed about the way of performing their duties, God not demanding from them a return which he knows they are unable to give, but being satisfied with a bare and simple acknowledgment. "Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the Lord" (Isaiah 38:2). (Psalms 116:7.)S. Our own soul is blessed. Love may have its faded times. Therefore will I call upon him as long as I live; literally, in my daysanother expression attributed to Hezekiah in the history (Isaiah 39:8). But the writer of this psalm did believe in them, as did all the saints of his day. if ever a psalm had the marks of spontaneity, this is surely such a one." Patrick. ), "Every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. We like to have things on our conditions, and at our price. But none are more acceptable than the spirit of gratitude. What his answering of our prayers has cost! II. Psalms 116:4 and Psalms 116:13). BUT NOTE THE CONCLUSIONS THIS WARRANTS CONCERNING THE FUTURE OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD. Exposed to temptation. (Psalms 116:3.) Visiting Muller's Orphan House at Ashley Down, Bristol, some years ago, we were shown into a room where, ranged on a gallery, were some seventy or eighty infant orphans of from three to five years of age, fatherless, if not motherless too. Psalms 116 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary We look, therefore, at. It may not be a trustworthy tradition. A tradition associates this psalm with the serious sickness of Hezekiah. Therefore, Gods people should make sure that they fill their few short years with praise to him (16-18). III. One thing especially seems to be present to thought, and it is made the basis of new love. The varied movements in a factory are quite bewildering to us, but the master knows, and guides them all to ends of his fashioning. The meaning, therefore, is, "I am thy very own." Formal sacrifices are but the representation of the spiritual sacrifices for which God calls; and their value depends on the spiritual sacrifice being offered through them. What need to labor any proof of this? It is caused in various ways. I. To the church these words have had a yet deeper significance added to them by Mt 26:27. The noblest of mankind have been the first to confess this. "In him are the issues of life and death" (Psalms 68:20), and he appoints to each man the day and attendant circumstances of his demise. II. We use the term "love" in a very secondary sense when we apply it to things. The guileful man will not have it that he is a dependent creature. For us he has "wiped the tears away." We must cling to what God is, and is to us.R.T. And, compared with our own, that light was very dim. Psalm 116: The Grace of Answered Prayer Publicly; he will not huddle up his praises in a corner, but what service he has to do for God he will do it in the presence of all his people; nor for ostentation, but to show that he was not ashamed of the service of God, and that others might be invited to join with him. Text is addressed to those who have already known God as their Rest. Whether the trial befall an individual or a nation, there is the same temptation to rebel and murmur. And because we could find nothing that he wanted, if he did want. It brings here and now such rich recompense of reward, and promises eternal reward by-and-by. If good men speak amiss, it is in their haste, through the surprise of a temptation, not deliberately and with premeditation, as the wicked man, who sits in the seat of the scornful (Psalms 1:1), sits and speaks against his brother,Psalms 50:19; Psalms 50:20. But many other meanings are suggested. The cup of salvation means the cup by which his sense of the greatness of the salvation might be expressed - the cup of thanksgiving. Man walking in the dark, stopped at very edge of quarry. by the reproachful plea through the psalmist (Psalms 1:1-6. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. Psalms 86:16). I will take the cup of salvation. But arguments for the one are the same as for the other. It is embodied in the familiar idea of the healthy manMens sana in corpore sano. As the meat offerings, so the drink offerings, were brought to the Lord in way of gratulation and thanksgiving. 1. There is no fear of love-relations with God. WebSee also Psalms 116:13 in other biblical comments: Adam Clarke Bible Commentary. And the pains of hell gat hold upon me; or, "the straits of hell" (comp. But it is true, nevertheless, as here used. Not as if he thought he could render any thing proportionable, or as a valuable consideration for what he had received; we can no more pretend to give a recompense to God than we can to merit any favour from him; but he desired to render something acceptable, something that God would be pleased with as the acknowledgment of a grateful mind. Health and sickness, joy and sorrow, life and death, are strangely intermingled in the stories of human lives. The thought here is of the trouble that causes grief-tears. III. Better think of them as having found the true love and the eternal fellowship. Commentary The trust was no mere intellectual conclusion, which could be upset by enlarging knowledge. (See Psalms 116:9, Psalms 116:13.) An important duty of Christian life is keeping ever fresh and vivid the memory of God's saving mercies to us. In Birmingham there is a "proving-house." In type How unworthy! A RECURRING EVIL IN OUR MORTAL LIFESICKNESS. The saint hopes to find rest in heaven. Yeshuoth: Psalms 18:50 28:8 53:6. And he cites a fact which unanswerably proves his assertion. They are such as will bring the best possible to himself. Young people go from country homes with good characters, but the full strong manhood does not come until those characters have been submitted to stern city-tests. O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul (compare the words of Isaiah 38:3, "Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee"). I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Psalm 116 And sometimes it is the result of disease in mind or body, or both. The Aramaisms of the language suggest that it belongs to the time of the restored exiles. He delights in all their lifein its beginning, its progress, and now its end. If he hears our prayer, he shall hear our praise, and we will hear his word. II. So he leans on Divine help continually, ever saying, "What I know not, that teach thou me;" "Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe," This, too, may seem to be weakness, but it is not; it is only man meeting fully the conditions of his being, for man is as a climbing plant, only strong and able to attain his best when he leans upon the strong. -- Zion that had drunk of the "cup of trembling" ( Isaiah 51:17 Isaiah 51:22 ) might now rise and drink of the cup of salvation. "Not sacrifices, not temples, not services, not prayers, not good deeds, not steadfast morality, not generous giving, can of them selves ever gain Divine favor. (Psalms 116:3.). 14 I will fulfill my vows to the Lord in the presence of all his people. Web1 I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. How God feels toward us finds its illustration in the manifested GodChrist Jesus. Where is one whose rule is righteous and reasonable as is that of the Lord? 5. Verse 13. If they begin it, they soon forsake it; or if perchance they seem to continue in it, with what sloth and slackness is it pursued! We do so as we first of all turned to himin penitence and prayer and trust. III. The "soul" here is the animal life. on the day I called. 2. Compare the notes at 1 Corinthians 10:16. The sorrows of death compassed me; literally, the cords of death (comp. We all have some mysteries to keep until the time for unfolding mysteries shall come. The truth of the Divine Fatherhood is misapprehended if it is allowed to lighten the soul's august impressions of the Divine glory. 2. We are in danger, however, of making two mistakes in connection with this subject. It honors God for us cheerfully to accept the blessings which he sends. Doing good and communicating are sacrifices with which God is well pleased (Hebrews 13:15; Hebrews 13:16) and this must accompany our giving thanks to his name. ), 3. They care nothing for God's service. I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord. Before we can return, we must have turned to God. This expression and the preceding suit well with Hezekiah's authorship of the psalm, as Dr. Kay well argues. THE DIVINE TEACHING FOR US ALL IN ALL THIS. II. He will oblige himself to be God's servant all his days. But is full of advantage. I. They sang to us a little hymn, and the pathetic refrain of it, as sung by those infant voices, we hear still in our souls. Psalms 116 - Sermon Bible Commentary - StudyLight.org 1. I will take the cup of salvation. "Thou shalt know hereafter." God has designed salvation for each one of us; he puts it before us as the master of a feast was wont to hand the cup to each guest. II. "They that worship the Father must worship him in spirit and in truth." Presently; he will not, like sorry debtors, delay the payment of them, or beg a day; but, "I will pay them now," Ecclesiastes 5:4. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living; rather, lands of the living; i.e. (Psalms 116:3. I. It is that spirit which speaks here in our text. 4. Israelites offered votive offerings when God answered their prayers regarding a vow they made. And fourth,because it was I who was robbed, not I who robbed." God does not allow him to die, as if death is a thing of no importance in Gods sight. We may think of God as our Father; as one of our family, the very Head of our family, and therefore the one on whom the heaviest part of the burden falls. Hezekiah, when told that his death was approaching, had "wept sore" (Isaiah 38:3). Natural piety suggests a return for favors received. the psalmist asks, and then proceeds to give the answer. Who shall estimate the measure of comfort and relief which afflicted humanity has found in submission to the will and prayer for the succor of the heavenly Friend! "I have set the Lord always before me.". Pain; to which no reference is made in the text, though it may be included in "trouble and sorrow" (Psalms 116:3). I. CELEBRATES A GREAT DELIVERANCE. In their words, whether spoken or written; weariness is written on them all. When the nerves or certain vital organs are affected by disease, fits of depression are characteristic features, and extremely distressing features. And new love to him is kindled as we experience his deliverances and salvations. He enquires what returns he shall make (Psalms 116:12; Psalms 116:12): What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me? 18 I will fulfill my vows to the Lord. How slow we are to pray I What a number of desires we have! We see here, first, God giving. Not if we never pray. This also has to be taken into accountmen are constantly ready to undertake and promise more than they can possibly perform. I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people. An increase of obedience to the Divine will. Illustrate by the fact that, in our family discipline, we let the child cry; but it is very hard to us to see it cry; and all the while we mean to wipe the tears away. Constantly throughout their history the Israelites were reminded of their deliverance from thee house of bondage, and of the vows and pledges involved in that deliverance. They can remember how it ended in a glad surrender, which brought them peace. Instead of so doing, I vented my unhappiness in abuse of my fellow-men. III. That restored life was a direct answer to prayer. We can do this figuratively at the sacramental table, we can do it spiritually every time we grasp the golden chalice of the covenant, realizing the fulness of blessing which it contains, and by faith receiving its divine contents into our inmost soul. Psalm 116 NEVERTHELESS, WE ARE BIDDEN RETURN. He will pay his vows in the courts of the tabernacle, where there was a crowd of Israelites attending, in the midst of Jerusalem, that he might bring devotion into more reputation.
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