Psalm 116:10–117:2
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116:10I had faith when I said,
“I am severely oppressed.”
116:11I rashly declared,16
“All men are liars.”
116:12How can I repay the Lord
for all his acts of kindness to me?
116:13I will celebrate my deliverance,17
and call on the name of the Lord.
116:14I will fulfill my vows to the Lord
before all his people.
116:15The Lord values
the lives of his faithful followers.18
116:16Yes, Lord! I am indeed your servant;
I am your lowest slave.19
You saved me from death.20
116:17I will present a thank offering to you,
and call on the name of the Lord.
116:18I will fulfill my vows to the Lord
before all his people,
116:19in the courts of the Lord’s temple,
in your midst, O Jerusalem.
Praise the Lord!
Psalm 11721
117:1Praise the Lord, all you nations!
Applaud him, all you foreigners!1
117:2For his loyal love towers2 over us,
and the Lord’s faithfulness endures.
Praise the Lord!
Footnotes
- 16 Heb “I said in my haste.”
- 17 Heb “a cup of deliverance I will lift up.” Perhaps this alludes to a drink offering the psalmist will present as he thanks the Lord for his deliverance. See v. 17.
- 18 Heb “precious in the eyes of the Lord [is] the death of his godly ones.” The point is not that God delights in or finds satisfaction in the death of his followers! The psalmist, who has been delivered from death, affirms that the life-threatening experiences of God’s followers get God’s attention, just as a precious or rare object would attract someone’s eye. See Ps 72:14 for a similar expression of this belief.
- 19 Heb “I am your servant, the son of your female servant.” The phrase “son of a female servant” (see also Ps 86:16) is used of a son born to a secondary wife or concubine (Exod 23:12). In some cases the child’s father is the master of the house (see Gen 21:10, 13; Judg 9:18). The use of the expression here certainly does not imply that the Lord has such a secondary wife or concubine! It is used metaphorically and idiomatically to emphasize the psalmist’s humility before the Lord and his status as the Lord’s servant.
- 20 Heb “you have loosed my bonds.” In this context the imagery refers to deliverance from death (see v. 3).
- 21 Psalm 117. The psalmist tells the nations to praise the Lord for his loyal love and faithfulness.
- 1 Or “peoples” (see Ps 108:3).
- 2 For this sense of the Hebrew verb גָּבַר (gavar), see Ps 103:11 and L. C. Allen, Psalms 101–150 (), , .
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