Teks -- Psalms 116:16-19 (NET)

116:16 Yes, Lord! I am indeed your servant; I am your lowest slave. You saved me from death. 116:17 I will present a thank offering to you, and call on the name of the Lord. 116:18 I will fulfill my vows to the Lord before all his people, 116:19 in the courts of the Lord’s temple, in your midst, O Jerusalem. Praise the Lord!

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JFB: Psa 116:15-16

By the plea of being a homeborn servant, he intimates his claim on God's covenant love to His people.

JFB: Psa 116:17-19

An ampler declaration of his purpose, designating the place, the Lord's house, or earthly residence in Jerusalem.

Clarke: Psa 116:16 - I am thy servant

I am thy servant - Thou hast preserved me alive. I live with, for, and to Thee. I am thy willing domestic, the son of thine handmaid - like one born in thy house of a woman already thy property. I am a servant, son of thy servant, made free by thy kindness; but, refusing to go out, I have had my ear bored to thy door-post, and am to continue by free choice in thy house for ever. He alludes here to the case of the servant who, in the year of jubilee being entitled to his liberty, refused to leave his master’ s house; and suffered his ear to be bored to the door-post, as a proof that by his own consent he agreed to continue in his master’ s house for ever.

Clarke: Psa 116:17 - I will offer to thee

I will offer to thee - As it is most probable that this Psalm celebrates the deliverance from Babylon, it is no wonder that we find the psalmist so intent on performing the rites of his religion in the temple at Jerusalem, which had been burnt with fire, and was now reviving out of its ruins, the temple service having been wholly interrupted for nearly four-score years.

Clarke: Psa 116:19 - In the midst of thee, O Jerusalem

In the midst of thee, O Jerusalem - He speaks as if present in the city, offering his vowed sacrifices in the temple to the Lord

Most of this Psalm has been applied to our Lord and his Church; and in this way it has been considered as prophetic; and, taken thus, it is innocently accommodated, and is very edifying. This is the interpretation given of the whole by the old Psalter

Calvin: Psa 116:16 - Come, O Jehovah! because I am thy servant

16.Come, O Jehovah! because I am thy servant As, in the former verse, he gloried that in him God had given an example of the paternal regard which he has for the faithful, so here he applies, in an especial manner, to himself the general doctrine, by declaring that his fetters had been broken, in consequence of his being included among the number of God’s servants. He employs the term fetters, as if one, with hands and feet bound, were dragged by the executioner. In assigning, as the reason of his deliverance, that he was God’s servant, he by no means vaunts of his services, but rather refers to God’s unconditional election; for we cannot make ourselves his servants, that being an honor conferred upon us solely by his adoption. Hence David affirms, that he was not God’s servant merely, but the son of his handmaid. “From the womb of my mother, even before I was born, was this honor conferred upon me.” He therefore presents himself as a common example to all who shall dedicate themselves to the service of God, and place themselves under his protection, that they may be under no apprehension for their safety while they have him for their defense.

Calvin: Psa 116:17 - I will sacrifice the sacrifices of praise to thee

17.I will sacrifice the sacrifices of praise to thee He once more repeats what he had said about gratitude, and that publicly; for we must manifest our piety, not only by our secret affection before God, but also by an open profession in the sight of men. David, along with the people, observed the rites of the law, knowing that these, at that time, were not unmeaning services; but while he did this, he had a particular reference to the purpose for which they were appointed, and offered principally the sacrifices of praise and the calves of his lips. He speaks of the courts of God’s house, because at that time there was but one altar from which it was unlawful to depart, and it was the will of God that the holy assemblies should be held there, that the faithful might mutually stimulate one another to the cultivation of godliness.

TSK: Psa 116:16 - truly // the son // thou hast

truly : Psa 86:16, Psa 119:125, Psa 143:12; Joh 12:26; Act 27:23; Jam 1:1

the son : Psa 86:16

thou hast : Psa 107:14-16; 2Ch 33:11-13; Isa 61:1; Rom 6:22

TSK: Psa 116:17 - the sacrifice // call

the sacrifice : Psa 50:14, Psa 107:22; Lev 7:12; Heb 13:15

call : Psa 116:13; Act 2:42

TSK: Psa 116:18

Psa 116:14, Psa 22:25, Psa 76:11; Ecc 5:5

TSK: Psa 116:19

Psa 96:8, Psa 100:4, Psa 118:19, Psa 118:20, Psa 122:3, Psa 122:4, Psa 135:2; 2Ch 6:6

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Poole: Psa 116:16 - I am thy servant // The son of thine handmaid // Thou hast loosed my bonds

I am thy servant: this is either,

1. An argument used in prayer, It becometh thee to protect and save thy own servants, as every good master doth; or rather,

2. A thankful acknowledgment of his great obligations to God, whereby he was in duty bound to be the Lord’ s faithful and perpetual servant. For this suits best with the context.

The son of thine handmaid either,

1. The son of a mother who was devoted and did devote me to thy service. Or,

2. Like one born in thy house of one of thy servants, and so thine by a most strict and double obligation.

Thou hast loosed my bonds thou hast rescued me from mine enemies, whose captive and vassal I was, and therefore hast a just right and title to me and to my service.

Poole: Psa 116:18

And as I said before, so I now repeat my promise, for the greater assurance, and to lay the stricter obligation upon myself.

PBC: Psa 116:16 - I am thy servant

" I am thy servant"

In Ro 1:1 when Paul says that he is a servant of Jesus Christ, he says " I’m a bond slave of Jesus Christ" You remember in the Old Testament where that if a person sold himself to be a slave to someone else, to be a servant because he had become poor and was unable to provide for himself, he might sell himself to a neighbor to be a slave and depending on what particular year that was -in the year of Jubilee he was free to go. But if he had a good master and he realizes that he is the same person that he was before he sold himself into slavery and if he was set free he would probably wind up in the same position and if he had a good master he would commit himself for life and that master would take him to the door post and there he would bore a hole through his ear and that was a sign that he was a servant for life. That’s what David was saying here, in Ps 116:1-19 he says " I’ve found a good master -under sin I became poor, unable to care for myself but I have found a good Master in Jesus Christ and I am going to be a servant for life. That’s the right response to make." " My service to Jesus Christ is not temporary, it’s a life-time commitment to Him." " I am thy servant..." - Ps 116:16 Any other response is beneath the dignity of God -any other response is beneath the dignity of God. Any other response to what God has done for sinners than to commit oneself to Him for life as a servant is beneath the dignity of what God has done. " I’m Thy servant, I’m not a hired hand, I’m a servant. I’m in it for the duration."

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Gill: Psa 116:16 - O Lord, truly I am thy servant, I am thy servant // and the son of thy handmaid // thou hast loosed my bonds

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, Psa 116:3; 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.

Gill: Psa 116:17 - I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving // and will call upon the name of the Lord

I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving,.... For deliverance from afflictions and death; for loosing his bonds, in every sense; for all mercies, temporal and spiritual; see Rom 6:17; Such sacrifices are according to the will of God; are well pleasing to him, when offered up through Christ, and in faith, and are a glorifying of him. These are more acceptable than all ceremonial sacrifices; and therefore the psalmist determined to offer this, and not them;

and will call upon the name of the Lord; See Gill on Psa 116:13.

Gill: Psa 116:18 - I will pay my vows unto the Lord // now in the presence of all his people

I will pay my vows unto the Lord,.... See Gill on Psa 116:14. And the Targum here, as there, paraphrases the latter clause,

now in the presence of all his people, thus;

"I will then declare his signs (or wonders) to all his people;''

the marvellous things he had done for him.

Gill: Psa 116:19 - In the courts of the Lord's house // in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem // Praise ye the Lord

In the courts of the Lord's house,.... This is added by way of explanation of Psa 116:18, what he meant by "the presence of all his people"; the assembly of the saints met together in the house of the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle, in the courts of it, where the people got together to worship God;

in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem; the Lord's house or tabernacle; for as yet the temple was not built, and the courts of it were in the midst of the city of Jerusalem. And this shows, as some interpreters have observed, that this psalm must have been written after David came to the kingdom, and had got this city into his hands, whither he brought the ark of the Lord. The whole signifies that he would praise the Lord publicly, as well as privately; and he concludes the psalm thus,

Praise ye the Lord; calling upon the Lord's people, in his house and courts, to join with him in this work of praise.