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Commentaries and Other Bible Study Helps - Prayer Tents - Prayer Tents
116:8-11 You Delivered My Soul from Death. The song returns to the desperate situation from which the person has been delivered: death, tears, stumbling. These cover a wider variety of circumstances than simply the death of one's body, and may be the psalmist's invitation to the singers to apply the psalm more generally to experiences of need. The psalm also leads the thankful person to see how to make good use of the deliverance: I will walk before the Lord (i.e., in love, faith, and obedience toward him).
116:10 I believed, even when I spoke. In 2 Cor. 4:13, Paul uses the Greek Septuagint of this line, "I believe, and so I spoke." Paul is narrating the kinds of desperate trials from which God has rescued him, and thus it is fitting that he would borrow these words.
