English Standard Version
Psalms 118:18
18The Lord has disciplined me severely, but he has not given me over to death.
Psalms 118:18 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The Lord hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.
- New International Version (NIV)The Lord has chastened me severely, but he has not given me over to death.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The Lord has chastened me severely, But He has not given me over to death.
- New Living Translation (NLT)The Lord has punished me severely, but he did not let me die.
Context of Psalms 118:18
16the right hand of the Lord exalts, the right hand of the Lord does valiantly!" 17I shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the deeds of the Lord. The Lord has disciplined me severely, but he has not given me over to death. 19Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the Lord. 20This is the gate of the Lord; the righteous shall enter through it.
Read all of Psalms 118Psalms 118:18 word by word
יַסֹּ֣ר יִסְּרַ֣נִּי יָּ֑הּ וְ֝לַמָּ֗וֶת לֹ֣א נְתָנָֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 118:18
- Psalms 66:10For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried.
- Psalms 94:12Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law,
- 2 Samuel 12:10Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.'
- 2 Samuel 13:1Now Absalom, David's son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar. And after a time Amnon, David's son, loved her.
- 2 Samuel 16:1When David had passed a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, bearing two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred of summer fruits, and a skin of wine.
- Job 5:17"Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.
- Job 33:16then he opens the ears of men and terrifies them with warnings,
- Proverbs 3:11My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline or be weary of his reproof,
- Jonah 2:6at the roots of the mountains. I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me forever; yet you brought up my life from the pit, O Lord my God.
- 1 Corinthians 11:32But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
- 2 Corinthians 1:9Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.
- 2 Corinthians 6:9as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and yet not killed;
- Hebrews 12:10For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.
Commentaries on Psalms 118:18
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18The Lord hath chastened me sore - Hebrew, “The Lord has chastened - has chastened me.” See the notes at Psalm 118:13. The psalmist had been greatly afflicted, and he now looked upon his affliction in the light of a fatherly chastisement or correction. It had been a severe trial, and he was not insensible to its severity, though he regarded it as designed for his own good. But he hath not given we over unto death - He interposed when I was in danger; he…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17-21God has restored the psalmist from death to life, so he praises the Lord publicly (see Psalm 116:6, 12–19).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 17-1817-18. He would live, because confident his life would be for God's glory.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 118
- 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
- John Wesley’s Notes
- 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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