Matthew Poole Commentary - Psalms 116:16

Matthew Poole Commentary - Psalms 116:16 - 116:16

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Psalms 116:16 - 116:16

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This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

116:1 - 116:1
116:2 - 116:2
116:3 - 116:3
116:4 - 116:4
116:5 - 116:5
116:6 - 116:6
116:7 - 116:7
116:8 - 116:8
116:9 - 116:9
116:10 - 116:10
116:11 - 116:11
116:12 - 116:12
116:13 - 116:13
116:14 - 116:14
116:15 - 116:15
116:16 - 116:16
116:17 - 116:17
116:18 - 116:18
116:19 - 116:19

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.