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Psalms 116:10
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I believed in you, so I said, "I am deeply troubled, Lord ."
I believe, for I will speak: I was greatly afflicted:
I believe, for I will speak: I was greatly afflicted:
I believed, so I said, "I am completely ruined."
I had faith when I said, "I am severely oppressed."
I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
I believed [and clung to my God] when I said, "I am greatly afflicted."
I believed, even when I spoke: "I am greatly afflicted";
I bileuede, for which thing Y spak; forsoth Y was maad low ful myche.
I believed, therefore I have spoken: "I am greatly afflicted."
I was faithful to you when I was suffering,
I believe, for I will speak: I was greatly afflicted:
I still had faith, though I said, I am in great trouble;
I will keep on trusting even when I say, "I am utterly miserable,"
I believed, therefore have I spoken. As for me, I was greatly afflicted.
I continued believing even when I said, "I am completely ruined!"
I trusted even when I spoke: 'I am greatly afflicted.'
I beleeued, therfore haue I spoken: I was greatly afflicted.
I believed when I said, "I am very troubled."
I kept my faith, even when I said, "I am greatly afflicted";
I beleeued, therefore did I speake: for I was sore troubled.
I believed, therefore have I spoken; I have been humbled exceedingly:
I kept on believing, even when I said, "I am completely crushed,"
I believed that I should speak, I, was greatly depressed.
(115-1) I have believed, therefore have I spoken; but I have been humbled exceedingly.
I kept my faith, even when I said, "I am greatly afflicted";
I beleued, therfore I wyll speake: I was sore afflicted,
I believed, wherefore I have spoken: but I was greatly afflicted.
I believed, even when I said,“I am severely oppressed.”
I believed, therefore I said, "I was greatly afflicted."
I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
I believed when I spoke, "I am afflicted greatly."
I believed; so I speak; I was greatly afflicted;
I have believed, for I speak, I -- I have been afflicted greatly.
I beleued, and therfore haue I spoke, but I was sore troubled.
I believed when I said, "I am greatly afflicted."
I believed, therefore I spoke, "I am greatly afflicted."
I believed when I said, "I am greatly afflicted."
I believed when I said,"I am greatly afflicted."
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I believed: 2 Corinthians 4:13, Hebrews 11:1
therefore: Numbers 14:6-9, Proverbs 21:28, 2 Peter 1:16, 2 Peter 1:21
I was greatly: Psalms 116:3
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 2:25 - because 1 Samuel 30:6 - was greatly
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I believed, therefore have I spoken,.... Here the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions, begin a new psalm, but without any foundation in the original; nor is it countenanced by the Targum; and is manifestly against the connection with the preceding verses. David expresses his faith in relation to what goes before, though the particulars of it are not mentioned, but are left to be supplied from thence: he not only believed there was a God, but that this God was gracious and merciful, and that he was his God; who had made a covenant with him, ordered in all things, and sure: he believed the promises of it; and particularly the grand promise of it respecting Christ, and salvation by him: he believed the Lord would deliver him out of all his troubles; that he should walk before him, and see his goodness in the land of the living; he believed a future state of happiness he should hereafter enjoy. The Apostle Paul quotes this passage, and applies it to himself and other Gospel ministers; declaring their faith in the resurrection of the dead, and an eternal weight of glory they were looking for, 2 Corinthians 4:13; and therefore spake so freely about these things. Faith gives boldness and freedom of speech to men; which believers use with God in prayer, in the believing views of him, as their God in Christ; and of Christ, his person, blood, righteousness, and sacrifice: it gives ministers boldness and freedom to speak out plainly, constantly, and boldly, the Gospel of Christ; it gives the same to private Christians, to speak freely one to another of their gracious experiences, and to declare publicly to the churches of Christ what God has done for their souls;
I was greatly afflicted; when he believed and spake, and yet nevertheless did; he might be afflicted, reproached, and persecuted for his faith, and his speaking of it; particularly as it respected his coming to the crown and kingdom of Israel. And it is no unusual thing for saints to be persecuted for their faith, and profession of it; and yet none of these things move them from it; their faith remains, and is much more precious than gold that perisheth; and they hold fast the profession of it. Many and great afflictions are the common lot of believers.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I believed, therefore have I spoken - This, in the Septuagint and Latin Vulgate, begins a new psalm, but without any good reason. This language is borrowed by the Apostle Paul to express his confidence in the truth of the gospel, and the effect which that confidence had on him in causing him to declare the truth. 2 Corinthians 4:13. The meaning here is, that in the time of his affliction the psalmist had true faith in God; and, as a result of that, he was able now to speak as he did. At that time he trusted in God; he called on him; he sought his mercy, and God heard his prayer; and now, as the consequence of that, he was enabled to give utterance to these thoughts. Faith was at the foundation of his recovery, and he was now reaping the fruits of faith.
I was greatly afflicted - In danger of death. The psalmist reviewed this now, and he saw that all that he had felt and dreaded was real. He was in imminent; danger. There was occasion for the tears which he shed. There was reason for the earnestness of his cry to God.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 116:10. I believed, therefore have I spoken — Distressed and afflicted as I was, I ever believed thy promises to be true; but I had great struggles to maintain my confidence; for my afflictions were great, oppressive, and of long standing.
It is scarcely worth observing that the letters called heemantic by the Hebrew grammarians, and which are used in forming the derivatives from the roots, are taken from the first word in this verse, ×××× ×ª× heemanti, "I have believed;" as the prefixes in that language are found in the technical words ××©× ×××× Mosheh vecaleb, "Moses and Caleb;" and the formatives of the future are found in the word ×××ª× eythan, "strength."
