118:25 Please Lord, deliver!
Please Lord, grant us success! 1
116:4 I called on the name of the Lord,
“Please Lord, rescue my life!”
116:16 Yes, Lord! I am indeed your servant;
I am your lowest slave. 2
You saved me from death. 3
1 sn A petition for deliverance and success seems odd in a psalm thanking God for deliverance, but it is not unique (see Ps 9:19-20). The people ask God to continue to intervene for them as he has for the psalmist.
2 tn Heb “I am your servant, the son of your female servant.” The phrase “son of a female servant” (see also Ps 86:16) is used of a son born to a secondary wife or concubine (Exod 23:12). In some cases the child’s father is the master of the house (see Gen 21:10, 13; Judg 9:18). The use of the expression here certainly does not imply that the
3 tn Heb “you have loosed my bonds.” In this context the imagery refers to deliverance from death (see v. 3).