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King James Version

Psalms 116:7

Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Faith;   Testimony;   Thompson Chain Reference - Rest, Spiritual;   Rest-Unrest;   The Topic Concordance - Calling;   Deliverance;   Sorrow;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflicted Saints;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Calf;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Dedication, Feast of the;   Hallel;   Hallelujah;   Jonah;   Joy;   Love, Lover, Lovely, Beloved;   Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread;   Psalms;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Hallel ;   Religion (2);   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Bread;   Olive tree;   Rest;   Sabbath;   Vagabond;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Hosanna;   Psalms the book of;   Tabernacles feast of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Rest (and forms);  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Let my soul be at rest again, for the Lord has been good to me.
English Revised Version
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.
Update Bible Version
Return to your rest, O my soul; For Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.
New Century Version
I said to myself, "Relax, because the Lord takes care of you."
New English Translation
Rest once more, my soul, for the Lord has vindicated you.
Webster's Bible Translation
Return to thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.
World English Bible
Return to your rest, my soul, For Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.
Amplified Bible
Return to your rest, O my soul, For the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.
English Standard Version
Return, O my soul, to your rest; for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Mi soule, turne thou in to thi reste; for the Lord hath do wel to thee.
Berean Standard Bible
Return to your rest, O my soul, for the LORD has been good to you.
Contemporary English Version
and treated me so kindly that I don't need to worry anymore.
American Standard Version
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; For Jehovah hath dealt bountifully with thee.
Bible in Basic English
Come back to your rest, O my soul; for the Lord has given you your reward.
Complete Jewish Bible
My soul, return to your rest! For Adonai has been generous toward you.
Darby Translation
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for Jehovah hath dealt bountifully with thee.
Easy-to-Read Version
My soul, relax! The Lord is caring for you.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Return, O my soul, unto Thy rest; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.
King James Version (1611)
Returne vnto thy rest, O my soule: for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.
New Life Bible
Return to your rest, O my soul. For the Lord has been good to you.
New Revised Standard
Return, O my soul, to your rest, for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Returne vnto thy rest, O my soule: for the Lord hath bene beneficiall vnto thee,
George Lamsa Translation
Return to your rest, O my soul; for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.
Good News Translation
Be confident, my heart, because the Lord has been good to me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Return, O my soul, to thy rest, For, Yahweh, hath dealt bountifully with thee.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(114-7) Turn, O my soul, into thy rest: for the Lord hath been bountiful to thee.
Revised Standard Version
Return, O my soul, to your rest; for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Returne O my soule vnto thy rest: for God hath rewarded thee.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Return to thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord has dealt bountifully with thee.
Christian Standard Bible®
Return to your rest, my soul,for the Lord has been good to you.
Hebrew Names Version
Return to your rest, my soul, For the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.
Lexham English Bible
Return, O my soul, to your repose, for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.
Literal Translation
Return to your rest, O soul; for Jehovah has blessed you.
Young's Literal Translation
Turn back, O my soul, to thy rest, For Jehovah hath conferred benefits on thee.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Turne agayne then vnto thy rest (o my soule) for the LORDE hath geuen the thy desyre.
THE MESSAGE
I said to myself, "Relax and rest. God has showered you with blessings. Soul, you've been rescued from death; Eye, you've been rescued from tears; And you, Foot, were kept from stumbling."
New American Standard Bible
Return to your rest, my soul, For the LORD has dealt generously with you.
New King James Version
Return to your rest, O my soul, For the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Return to your rest, O my soul, For the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.
Legacy Standard Bible
Return to your rest, O my soul,For Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.

Contextual Overview

1 I love the Lord , because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. 2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. 4 Then called I upon the name of the Lord ; O Lord , I beseech thee, deliver my soul. 5 Gracious is the Lord , and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. 6 The Lord preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me. 7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee. 8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. 9 I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thy rest: Psalms 95:11, Jeremiah 6:16, Jeremiah 30:10, Matthew 11:28, Matthew 11:29, Hebrews 4:8-10

dealt: Psalms 13:6, Psalms 119:17, Hosea 2:7

Reciprocal: Genesis 8:9 - and she 1 Kings 3:6 - mercy Psalms 73:28 - But Psalms 84:3 - sparrow Psalms 119:65 - dealt well Psalms 142:7 - thou shalt Isaiah 11:10 - his rest Jeremiah 4:19 - O my Jeremiah 50:6 - have forgotten Joel 2:26 - that Colossians 1:12 - Giving

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Return unto thy rest, O my soul,.... To a quiet and tranquil state after much distress k; a soliloquy, an address to his own soul to return to God his resting place, as Kimchi; or to Christ, whose rest is glorious, and which lies in a cessation from a man's own works; not from doing them, but from depending on them, or from labouring for life by them; in a deliverance from the bondage of the law, its curse and condemnation, and from the dominion and tyranny of sin, and from the distressing guilt of it on the conscience; in spiritual peace and joy, arising from the application of the blood of Christ, and from a view of his righteousness and justification by it, and of his sacrifice, and of the expiation of sin by that; which is enjoyed in the ways and ordinances of Christ, and oftentimes amidst afflictions and tribulations: this is sometimes broke in upon and interrupted, through the prevalence of sin, the temptations of Satan, and divine desertions; but may be returned to again, as Noah's dove returned to the ark when it could find rest nowhere else; as the believer can find none but in Christ, and therefore after he has wandered from him he returns to him again, encouraged by the following reason.

For the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee; in times past, even in an eternity past, having loved him with an everlasting love, chosen him in Christ, made a covenant with him in him, blessed him with all spiritual blessings in him, and made unto him exceeding great and precious promises; provided a Redeemer and Saviour for him, whom he had made known unto him, having enlightened, quickened, and converted him; and had laid up good things for him to come, and had done many great things for him already; all which might serve to encourage his faith and hope in him. The Targum is,

"because the Word of the Lord hath rendered good unto me.''

k "Remigrat animus nunc denuo mihi", Plauti Epidicus, Act. 4. Sc. 1. v. 42.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Return unto thy rest, O my soul - Luther, “Be thou again joyful, O my soul.” The meaning seems to be, “Return to thy former tranquility and calmness; thy former freedom from fear and anxiety.” He had passed through a season of great danger. His soul had been agitated and terrified. That danger was now over, and he calls upon his soul to resume its former tranquility, calmness, peace, and freedom from alarm. The word does not refer to God considered as the “rest” of the soul, but to what the mind of the psalmist had been, and might now be again.

For the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee - See the notes at Psalms 13:6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 116:7. Return unto thy rest, O my soul — God is the centre to which all immortal spirits tend, and in connexion with which alone they can find rest. Every thing separated from its centre is in a state of violence; and, if intelligent, cannot be happy. All human souls, while separated from God by sin, are in a state of violence, agitation, and misery. From God all spirits come; to him all must return, in order to be finally happy. This is true in the general case; though, probably, the rest spoken of here means the promised land, into which they were now returning.

A proof of the late origin of this Psalm is exhibited in this verse, in the words למנוחיכי limenuchaichi, "to thy rest," and עליכי alaichi, "to thee," which are both Chaldaisms.


 
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