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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 116 Theodoret applies this psalm to the distresses of the Jews in the times of the Maccabees under Antiochus Epiphanes; and R. Obadiah interprets some passages in it of the Grecians of those times; but it rather seems to have been written by David on account of some troubles of his, out of which he was delivered; and refers either to the times of Saul, and the persecutions...
John Gill
I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. As in the sight of the omniscient God, according to his word and will, and in such manner as to please him. So Enoch's walking with God is by the apostle explained of pleasing him; compare Genesis 5:22, and so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions render it, "I will please the Lord"; or, as the Syriac and Ethiopic versions; "that...
Matthew Henry
This is a thanksgiving psalm; it is not certain whether David penned it upon any particular occasion or upon a general review of the many gracious deliverances God had wrought for him, out of six troubles and seven, which deliverances draw from him many very lively expressions of devotion, love, and gratitude; and with similar pious affections our souls should be lifted up to God in singing it....
Charles H. Spurgeon
I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. That is to say, as he has dealt so well with me, I will always deal well with him. I will not care to look to men — to their hope, to their help, to their judgment, to their censure, but I will set the Lord always before me. He shall be everything to me. Beloved, it is one of the best days work a man ever does, when he turns clean away from...
Charles H. Spurgeon
I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. “I will not care who sees me so long as he sees me; I will court no presence but his presence, ‘I will walk before Jehovah.’” It is grand walking, under a constant sense of the Lord’s inspection, and a delightful consciousness of the Lord’s smile. This is like Enoch’s walk, and you know how it ends, for Enoch could not die for the life of...
Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eye from tears, and my feet from falling. I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. “Let my fellow creatures think what they will of me, I will not care about their judgments, I will only think of God.” This is the highest noblest, happiest style of living, — to “walk before the Lord.” Why, there are some men who dare not even call...
Charles H. Spurgeon
I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. “I will not walk before some great man so as to seek to please him. I will not walk before my fellow-believers so as to be merely looking for their approbation. But ‘ I will walk before the Lord.’” This is the best way of living, so let it be yours and mine, beloved. Let each of us say, “I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living ?”
Charles H. Spurgeon
I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. “That shall be my way of walking,-not before me, that I may gain their praise, but I will consider the Lord, and the Lord alone; and so long as I please him, I shall not mind whether I please anybody else or not.
Charles H. Spurgeon
I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. The best style of living is walking before God, so living in his sight as to be indifferent to the opinions and judgments of our fellow men and only caring to know that God is looking upon us with approval. This is the way to live; and if we have tried it, we have found it to be so pleasant that we are resolved to continue in it.