New King James Version
Psalms 118:18
18The Lord has chastened 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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The Lord has disciplined 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 is exalted; The right hand of the Lord does valiantly. 17I shall not die, but live, And declare the works of the Lord. The Lord has chastened me severely, But He has not given me over to death. 19Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go through them, And I will praise the Lord. 20This is the gate of the Lord, Through which the righteous shall enter.
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 refined us as silver is refined.
- Psalms 94:12Blessed is the man whom You instruct, O Lord, And 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 13:1After this Absalom the son of David had a lovely sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.
- 2 Samuel 16:1When David was a little past the top of the mountain, there was Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth, who met him with a couple of saddled donkeys, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, one hundred clusters of raisins, one hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.
- Job 5:17“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects; Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
- Job 33:16Then He opens the ears of men, And seals their instruction.
- Proverbs 3:11My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, Nor detest His correction;
- Jonah 2:6I went down to the moorings of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed behind me forever; Yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord, my God.
- 1 Corinthians 11:32But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
- 2 Corinthians 1:9Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead,
- 2 Corinthians 6:9as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and yet not killed;
- Hebrews 12:10For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of 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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