Psalms 116:7
Return, O my soul, to your rest, || For YHWH has conferred benefits on you.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.
In Context
6YHWH [is] a preserver of the simple, || I was low, and He gives salvation to me.
8For You have delivered my soul from death, || My eyes from tears, my feet from overthrowing.
Cross References
Psalms 95:11Where I swore in My anger, “If they come into My rest—!”
Jeremiah 6:16Thus said YHWH: “Stand by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, || Where [is] this—the good way? And go in it, || And find rest for yourselves. And they say, We do not go.
Hosea 2:7And she has pursued her lovers, || And she does not overtake them, || And has sought them, and does not find [them], || And she has said: I go, and I return to my first husband, || For—better to me then than now.
Hebrews 4:8for if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken after these things concerning another day;
Matthew Henry on Psalms 116:2-10
Grateful Acknowledgments. 1 I love the Lord , because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. 2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. 4 Then called I upon the name of the Lord ; O Lord , I beseech thee, deliver my soul. 5 Gracious is the Lord , and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. 6 The Lord preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped… Read the whole commentary →