Psalms 116

Psalms 116:1

They go - They grow stronger and stronger. Appeareth - This is added as the blessed fruit of their long and tedious journey.

Psalms 116:3

Look - Cast a favourable eye towards him. Anointed - Of me, who though a vile sinner, am thine anointed king.

Psalms 116:4

Than dwell - In the greatest glory and plenty.

Psalms 116:5

A sun - To enlighten and quicken, and direct and comfort his people. Shield - To save his people from all their enemies. Grace - His favour, which is better than life. Glory - The honour which comes from God here, and eternal glory.

Psalms 116:8

Captivity - The captives.

Psalms 116:11

Turn us - Restore us to our former tranquillity, and free us from the troubles which we yet groan under.

Psalms 116:13

Revive us - Give us a second reviving in bringing home the rest of our brethren, and in restraining our enemies.

Psalms 116:15

Will hear - Diligently observe. Will speak - What answer God will give to my prayers. Peace - He will give an answer of peace. Saints - Not to all that are called God’s people, but only to those who are truly such.

Psalms 116:16

His salvation - That compleat salvation for which all the Israel of God wait; even the redemption by the Messiah; of which not only Christian, but even Jewish writers understand this place; and to which the following passages properly belong. And the psalmist might well say this salvation was nigh, because the seventy weeks determined by Daniel were begun. Glory - The glorious presence of God, and the God of glory himself, even Christ, who is the brightness of his father’s glory.

Psalms 116:17

Kissed - That great work of redemption by Christ, shall clearly manifest God’s mercy in redeeming his people Israel, and in the conversion of the Gentiles; his truth in fulfilling that great promise of sending his son, his righteousness in punishing sin, on his son, and in conferring righteousness upon guilty and lost creatures; and his peace or reconciliation to sinners, and that peace of conscience which attends upon it.

Psalms 116:18

Truth - Truth among men. Righteousness - And God’s justice shall be satisfied: he shall look down upon sinful men with a smiling countenance.