Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Psalms 116:8 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 8. 8For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
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Quick Meaning
Psalm 116:8: The reason or consequence in “For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from…” supports the surrounding claim in “Love and thanksgiving after mortal danger: Love, heard prayer, and return to rest.”
Read It With
- Psalms 116:1–9
- Psalms 116:1–19
Read Psalms 116:8 with 116:1–9 and 116:1–19. Read alone, “For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears,…” could lose the individual voice, the parallel line or movement it develops, and the psalm's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Within Psalms 116:1–9, the individual voice carries the movement “Love, heard prayer, and return to rest” as part of “Love and thanksgiving after mortal danger.” Its thanksgiving form and poetic parallelism hold the petitions, images, memories, or praise together before any single line is applied.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Psalms 116:1–9 opens Psalm 116 with “I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications” and establishes the individual voice and “Love, heard prayer, and return to rest” movement before later lines develop or answer it. Within that relationship, Psalm 116:8 supplies a reason or consequence through “For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my…” and must be read with the claim it supports.
What Remains True
The lasting force of “For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears,…” comes through Psalms 116:1–9 and Book V, not isolation. Biblical faith can speak unresolved pain directly, remain in relationship, seek safe help, and refuse the claim that anguish proves guilt or failed faith. The local movement is “Love, heard prayer, and return to rest.” The unit's reviewed limit is: The Greek tradition divides this Hebrew psalm; testimony to deliverance does not guarantee that every faithful sufferer avoids death.
How It Can Shape Life
- Keep the movement “Love and thanksgiving after mortal danger: Love, heard prayer, and return to rest” in view. Make room for the emotion in “For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears,…”, ask what safety and companionship require now, and resist a neat answer the psalm itself does not give. The textual reason is this verse's role: Psalm 116:8 supplies a reason or consequence through “For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my…” and must be read with the claim it supports.
Continue in Context
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Read Psalms 116:1–9 — Love and thanksgiving after mortal danger: Love, heard prayer, and return to restSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Psalms 116:1–9, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Psalms
Open Scriptures
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Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ps.xml, OSIS 116:1–9
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Biblical Studies Press
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Supports: Verse-level controls for poetic syntax, imagery, older KJV language, textual issues, headings, and alternatives in Psalms 116:1–9.
Exact location: Official NET Bible Psalm 116 HTML, translator, textual, and study notes attached to Psalms 116:1–9
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