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Salmos 116:16
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¡Ah, Señor ! Ciertamente yo soy tu siervo, siervo tuyo soy, hijo de tu sierva; tú desataste mis ataduras.
Oh Jehov�, en verdad yo soy tu siervo, yo tu siervo, hijo de tu sierva: T� desataste mis ataduras.
As� es oh SE�OR, porque yo soy tu siervo, yo soy tu siervo, hijo de tu sierva; t� rompiste mis prisiones.
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.
