Commentaries and Other Bible Study Helps - Prayer Tents - Prayer Tents

118:17-18 Though the Lord Disciplines Me, I Will Not Die. The experience of deliverance, and the security that the faithful have in God, lead to the reflection, I shall not die, but I shall live. The next line also clarifies for each member of the congregation why God would extend life: that I might recount the deeds of the Lord (see note on 116:8-11). The situations of danger (118:5, 10-13) were not God's rejection of the singer but his severe discipline, aiming to bring the singer to see more clearly that in him the singer is secure.