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World English Bible

Psalms 116:16

Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Decision;   Servant;   Vows;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Liberty, Christian;   Missionaries, All Christians Should Be as;   Servants;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Bond;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Maid, Maiden;   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 - Handmaid;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Prison;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Hosanna;   Psalms the book of;   Tabernacles feast of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Bonds;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Band;   Handmaid;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - AḴdamut;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
O Lord , I am your servant; yes, I am your servant, born into your household; you have freed me from my chains.
English Revised Version
O LORD, truly I am thy servant: I am thy servant, the son of thine handmaid; thou hast loosed my bonds.
Update Bible Version
O Yahweh, truly I am your slave: I am your slave, the son of your female slave; You have loosed my bonds.
New Century Version
Lord , I am your servant; I am your servant and the son of your female servant. You have freed me from my chains.
New English Translation
Yes, Lord ! I am indeed your servant; I am your lowest slave. You saved me from death.
Webster's Bible Translation
O LORD, truly I [am] thy servant; I [am] thy servant, the son of thy handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
Amplified Bible
O LORD, truly I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your handmaid; You have unfastened my chains.
English Standard Version
O Lord , I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your maidservant. You have loosed my bonds.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
O! Lord, for Y am thi seruant; Y am thi seruaunt, and the sone of thi handmaide. Thou hast broke my bondys,
Berean Standard Bible
Truly, O LORD, I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have released my bonds.
Contemporary English Version
I worship you, Lord , just as my mother did, and you have rescued me from the chains of death.
American Standard Version
O Jehovah, truly I am thy servant: I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid; Thou hast loosed my bonds.
Bible in Basic English
O Lord, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of her who is your servant; by you have my cords been broken.
Complete Jewish Bible
Oh, Adonai ! I am your slave; I am your slave, the son of your slave-girl; you have removed my fetters.
Darby Translation
Yea, Jehovah! for I am thy servant; I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
Easy-to-Read Version
Lord , I am your servant! Yes, I am your slave, as my mother was. You set me free from the chains of death.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I beseech Thee, O LORD, for I am Thy servant;
King James Version (1611)
Oh Lord, truely I am thy seruant, I am thy seruant, and the sonne of thy handmayde: thou hast loosed my bonds.
New Life Bible
For sure I am Your servant, O Lord. I am Your servant, the son of the woman who served You. You have set me free from my chains.
New Revised Standard
O Lord , I am your servant; I am your servant, the child of your serving girl. You have loosed my bonds.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Beholde, Lord: for I am thy seruant, I am thy seruant, and the sonne of thine handmaide: thou hast broken my bondes.
George Lamsa Translation
O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid; thou hast loosed my bonds.
Good News Translation
I am your servant, Lord ; I serve you just as my mother did. You have saved me from death.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I beseech thee, O Yahweh - for, I, am thy servant, - I, am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid, Thou hast loosened my bonds.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(115-7) O Lord, for I am thy servant: I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid. Thou hast broken my bonds:
Revised Standard Version
O LORD, I am thy servant; I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid. Thou hast loosed my bonds.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
It is euen so O God, for I am thy seruaunt and the sonne of thy handemayde: thou hast loosed my bondes in sunder.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
O Lord, I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast burst by bonds asunder.
Christian Standard Bible®
Lord, I am indeed your servant;I am your servant, the son of your female servant.You have loosened my bonds.
Hebrew Names Version
LORD, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains.
King James Version
O Lord , truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
Lexham English Bible
Ah, Yahweh, I am indeed your servant; I am your servant, the child of your maidservant. You have loosed my bonds.
Literal Translation
O Jehovah, truly I am Your servant now; I am Your servant, the son of Your handmaid; You have loosed my bonds.
Young's Literal Translation
Cause [it] to come, O Jehovah, for I [am] Thy servant. I [am] Thy servant, son of Thy handmaid, Thou hast opened my bonds.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and the sonne of thy handmayden, thou hast broken my bondes in sonder.
New American Standard Bible
O LORD, I surely am Your slave, I am Your slave, the son of Your female slave, You have unfastened my restraints.
New King James Version
O LORD, truly I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have loosed my bonds.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
O Lord , surely I am Your servant, I am Your servant, the son of Your handmaid, You have loosed my bonds.
Legacy Standard Bible
O Yahweh, surely I am Your slave,I am Your slave, the son of Your maidservant,You have loosed my bonds.

Contextual Overview

10 I believed, therefore I said, "I was greatly afflicted." 11 I said in my haste, "All men are liars." 12 What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me? 13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of Yahweh. 14 I will pay my vows to Yahweh, Yes, in the presence of all his people. 15 Precious in the sight of Yahweh is the death of his saints. 16 Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains. 17 I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, And will call on the name of Yahweh. 18 I will pay my vows to Yahweh, Yes, in the presence of all his people, 19 In the courts of Yahweh's house, In the midst of you, Jerusalem. Praise Yah!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

truly: Psalms 86:16, Psalms 119:125, Psalms 143:12, John 12:26, Acts 27:23, James 1:1

the son: Psalms 86:16

thou hast: Psalms 107:14-16, 2 Chronicles 33:11-13, Isaiah 61:1, Romans 6:22

Reciprocal: Genesis 35:3 - who answered Leviticus 25:55 - my servants Leviticus 26:13 - and I have Deuteronomy 5:15 - the Lord Joshua 24:18 - will we also Psalms 4:1 - thou Proverbs 31:28 - children Ecclesiastes 5:4 - pay Isaiah 44:5 - I am Luke 1:38 - Behold Luke 7:43 - Thou Luke 8:38 - besought Luke 13:13 - and immediately Acts 2:24 - loosed Acts 8:23 - the bond Acts 12:7 - And his Romans 6:18 - made Romans 7:25 - thank God Romans 8:12 - we are 1 Corinthians 7:22 - is Christ's 2 Timothy 1:5 - thy mother

Gill's Notes on the Bible

O Lord, truly I [am] thy servant, I [am] thy servant,.... Not merely by creation, and as obliged by providential favours; but by the grace of God, which made him a willing one: and he was so, not nominally only, but in reality; not as those who say Lord, Lord, but do not the will of God; whereas he served the Lord cheerfully and willingly, in righteousness and true holiness: and this he repeats for the confirmation of it, and to show his heartiness in the Lord's service, and his zealous attachment to him; and which he mentions, not as though he thought his service meritorious of anything at the hand of God; but that his being in this character was an obligation upon him to serve the Lord, and him only, and might expect his protection in it;

[and] the son of thy handmaid; his mother was also a servant of the Lord; and had trained him up in his infancy in the nurture and admonition of the Lord; so that he was inured to it early, and could not easily depart from it;

thou hast loosed my bonds; the bonds of affliction and death in which he was held; these were loosed, being delivered from them,

Psalms 116:3; and the bonds of sin, and Satan, and the law, in whose service he had been, which was no other than a bondage; but now was freed from the servitude and dominion of sin, from the captivity of Satan, and the bondage of the law; and therefore, though a servant, yet the Lord's free man.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O Lord, truly I am thy servant - In view of thy mercy in delivering me from death, I feel the obligation to give myself to thee. I see in the fact that thou hast thus delivered me, evidence that I am thy servant - that I am so regarded by thee; and I recognize the obligation to live as becomes one who has had this proof of favor and mercy.

The son of thine handmaid - Of a pious mother. I see now the result of my training. I call to my recollection the piety of a mother. I rememberer how she served thee; how she trained me up for thee; I see now the evidence that her prayers were heard, and that her efforts were blessed in endeavoring to train me up for thee. The psalmist saw now that, under God, he owed all this to the pious efforts of a mother, and that God had been pleased to bless those efforts in making him his child, and in so guiding him that it was not improper for him to speak. of himself as possessing and carrying out the principles of a sainted mother. It is not uncommon - and in such cases it is proper - that all the evidence which we may have that we are pious - that we are living as we ought to live, that we are receiving special favors from God - recalls to our minds the instructions of early years, the counsels and prayers of a holy father or mother.

Thou hast loosed my bonds - The bonds of disease; the fetters which seemed to have made me a prisoner to Death. I am now free again. I walk at large. I am no longer the captive - the prisoner - of disease and pain.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 116:16. I am thy servant — Thou hast preserved me alive. I live with, for, and to THEE. I am thy willing domestic, the son of thine handmaid - like one born in thy house of a woman already thy property. I am a servant, son of thy servant, made free by thy kindness; but, refusing to go out, I have had my ear bored to thy door-post, and am to continue by free choice in thy house for ever. He alludes here to the case of the servant who, in the year of jubilee being entitled to his liberty, refused to leave his master's house; and suffered his ear to be bored to the door-post, as a proof that by his own consent he agreed to continue in his master's house for ever.


 
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