Psalms 116:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.

Psalms 116:1 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 4:19
We love him, because he first loved us.
Psalms 66:19-20
But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer. …
1 John 5:2-3
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. …
John 16:24
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
Psalms 34:3-4
O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

In this part of the psalm we have, I. A general account of David’s experience, and his pious resolutions (Ps. 116:1, 2), which are as the contents of the whole psalm, and give an idea of it. 1. He had experienced God’s goodness to him in answer to prayer: He has heard my voice and my supplications. David, in straits, had humbly and earnestly begged mercy of God, and God had heard him, that is, had…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Psa 116:1-19. The writer celebrates the deliverance from extreme perils by which he was favored, and pledges grateful and pious public acknowledgments. 1-2. A truly grateful love will be evinced by acts of worship, which calling on God expresses (Psa 116:13; Psa 55:16; 86:7; compare Psa 17:6; 31:2).