Psalms 118:18 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 118:18

The LORD disciplined me severely, but He has not given me over to death.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Jehovah hath chastened me sore; But he hath not given me over unto death.

KJV

The Lord hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.

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Commentary

4 voices

Clement of Alexandria

The Instructor Book 1 (215)

Consider the carefulness and the wisdom and the power of this Educator [Christ]: "He shall not judge according to appearance or reprove according to gossip, but he shall render judgment with humility and shall reprove the sinners of the earth." And through the lips of David, he says, "The Lord chastising has chastised me, but he has not delivered me over to death." Indeed, the very act of being chastised, and being educated by the Lord as a child, means deliverance from death. Again, he says through the same psalmist: "You shall rule them with a rod of iron."

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The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

The Lord hath chastened me sore,.... Or, "in chastening hath chastened me" (d). David was exercised with many afflictions; and though these were sore ones to the flesh, yet they were only the chastenings of a Father, and were all in love and for his good; as are all the afflictions of God's people; for whom he loves he chastens.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

As dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and not killed. We ought not therefore, when we are chastened sorely, immediately to despair of life, for God sometimes, in appearance, turns men to destruction, and yet says, Return; says unto them, Live. This also is applicable to Jesus Christ.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 5 (1878)

The Lord hath chastened me sore. This is faith's version of the former passage, "Thou hast thrust sore at me; "for the attacks of the enemy are chastisements from the hand of God. The devil tormented Job for his own purposes, but in reality the sorrows of the patriarch were chastisements from the Lord. "Chastening, Jah hath chastened me, "says our poet: as much as to say that the Lord had smitten him very severely, and made him sorrowfully to know the full weight of his rod.

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Original language & word study

6 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
יַסֹּ֣ר	ya.Sor	certainly <to discipline>	H3256 →
יִסְּרַ֣נִּי	yi.se.Ra.ni	he has disciplined me	H3256 →
יָּ֑הּ	Yah	Yahweh	H3050 →
וְ֝לַמָּ֗וֶת	ve.la.Ma.vet	and to <the> death	H4194 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
נְתָנָֽנִי׃	ne.ta.Na.ni	he has given me	H5414 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Corinthians 11:32
But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.
leads to
- Hebrews 12:5–11
  And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
- Proverbs 3:11–12
  My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;
- Revelation 3:19
  Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
- Deuteronomy 8:5
  So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
- Job 5:17–18
  Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
Through
2 Corinthians 6:9
as unknown, yet well-known; dying, and yet we live on; punished, yet not killed;
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 4:10–11
  We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
- Romans 8:36
  As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
- 2 Corinthians 1:8–10
  We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired…

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Psalms

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Psalms