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Psalms 116:7
7Return to your rest, O my soul, For the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.
Psalms 116:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.
- New International Version (NIV)Return to your rest, my soul, for the Lord has been good to you.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Return, O my soul, to your rest; for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Return to your rest, O my soul, For the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.
Context of Psalms 116:7
5Gracious is the Lord, and [consistently] righteous; Yes, our God is compassionate. 6The Lord protects the simple (childlike); I was brought low [humbled and discouraged], and He saved me. Return to your rest, O my soul, For the Lord has dealt bountifully with you. 8For You have rescued my life from death, My eyes from tears, And my feet from stumbling and falling. 9I will walk [in submissive wonder] before the Lord In the land of the living.
Read all of Psalms 116Psalms 116:7 word by word
שׁוּבִ֣י נַ֭פְשִׁי לִמְנוּחָ֑יְכִי כִּֽי־יְ֝הוָ֗ה גָּמַ֥ל עָלָֽיְכִי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 116:7
- Psalms 95:11Therefore I swore [an oath] in My wrath, ‘They absolutely shall not enter My rest [the land of promise].’ ”
- Jeremiah 6:16Thus says the Lord, “Stand by the roads and look; ask for the ancient paths, Where the good way is; then walk in it, And you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’
- Jeremiah 30:10Fear not, O Jacob My servant,’ says the Lord, ‘Nor be dismayed or downcast, O Israel; For behold, I will save you from a distant land [of exile] And your descendants from the land of their captivity. Jacob will return and will be quiet and at ease, And no one will make him afraid.
- Matthew 11:28“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavily burdened [by religious rituals that provide no peace], and I will give you rest [refreshing your souls with salvation].
- Hebrews 4:8[This mention of a rest was not a reference to their entering into Canaan.] For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not speak about another day [of opportunity] after that.
- Psalms 13:6I will sing to the Lord, Because He has dealt bountifully with me.
- Psalms 119:17Deal bountifully with Your servant, That I may live and keep Your word [treasuring it and being guided by it day by day].
- Hosea 2:7She will [passionately] pursue her lovers, but she will not overtake them; And she will seek them, but will not find them. Then she will say, ‘Let me go and return to my first husband, For it was better for me then than now!’
Commentaries on Psalms 116:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Return unto thy rest, O my soul - God is the center to which all immortal spirits tend, and in connection with which alone they can find rest. Every thing separated from its center is in a state of violence; and, if intelligent, cannot be happy. All human souls, while separated from God by sin, are in a state of violence, agitation, and misery. From God all spirits come; to him all must return, in order to be finally happy. This is true in the general…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Return unto thy rest, O my soul - Luther, “Be thou again joyful, O my soul.” The meaning seems to be, “Return to thy former tranquility and calmness; thy former freedom from fear and anxiety.” He had passed through a season of great danger. His soul had been agitated and terrified. That danger was now over, and he calls upon his soul to resume its former tranquility, calmness, peace, and freedom from alarm. The word does not refer to God considered as the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-7The gracious, righteous, and compassionate Lord (see Psalm 111:1–5) rescued and gave rest to the psalmist.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5-85-8. The relief which he asked is the result not of his merit, but of God's known pity and tenderness, which is acknowledged in assuring himself (his "soul," Psa 11:1; 16:10) of rest and peace. All calamities [Psa 116:8] are represented by death, tears, and falling of the feet (Psa 56:13).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 116
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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