Psalm 116–
1 I love Yahweh because He hears My voice, My pleas for mercy. 2 I will call on Him as long as I live because He turns His ear toward Me. 3 The ropes of death became tangled around Me. The horrors of the grave took hold of Me. I experienced pain and agony. 4 But I kept calling on the name of Yahweh: “Please, Yahweh, rescue me!” 5 Yahweh is merciful and righteous. Our Elohim is compassionate. 6 Yahweh protects defenseless people. When I was weak, He saved Me. I love Yahweh because He hears My voice, My pleas for mercy. I will call on Him as long as I live because He turns His ear toward Me. The ropes of death became tangled around Me. The horrors of the grave took hold of Me. I experienced pain and agony.
In the upper room the disciples next partook of the Cup of Salvation together. Thus they represent the redeemed of Israel. And in this- the next- Psalm, they prophetically express their love for Jesus in His Great Deliverance. For after the meal, Jesus would die for the sins of the world— not drinking of the [prior] symbolic cup of death, but the substance of the cup. “Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples, ‘Sit here while I go and pray over there.’ And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. Then He said to them, ‘My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me.’ He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, ‘O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.’” (Matthew 26:36-39 )
“‘I love Yahweh.’ Every believer ought to be able to declare without the slightest hesitation, ‘I love the Lord.’ It was required under the law, but was never produced in the heart of man except by the grace of God, and upon gospel principles….” — “’because He hears My voice, My pleas for mercy.’ The incarnate Savior “is imagined by the prophet to have passed through the sorrows and afflictions of life. The atonement is passed. He has risen from the dead. He is on the right hand of the Majesty on High.” ” (C. H. Spurgeon)
“‘I will call on Him as long as I live because He turns His ear toward Me.’ He sees Jesus “enthroned in eternity, and triumphant over sin and death…” (C. H. Spurgeon) as his example in life. “‘The ropes of death became tangled around Me.’ The sorrows of death compassed me, Christ, of whom David was a type, was a Man of sorrows all His days; and in the garden He was surrounded with sorrow; ‘exceeding sorrowful even unto death,’ in a view of the sins of His people imputed to Him, and under a sense of God’s wrath for them, He was about to bear; and His agonies in the article of death were very grievous. —’The horrors of the grave took hold of Me;’... This applied to Christ may design the wrath of God and curse of the law, which He endured in the room and stead of His people, as their surety;...; or it may refer to His being laid in the grave, in a strait and narrow place, as the word signifies; where He lay bound in grave clothes, till he was loosed from the pains and cords of death, it being not possible He should be held by them, Acts 2:24— "But God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power.— ‘I experienced pain and agony.’ He died the painful and accursed death." (Gill)
“But I kept calling on the name of Yahweh [in life]: ‘Please, Yahweh, rescue me!’ from these sorrows and pains, from these afflictions and distresses, from death and the grave, and from wrath.” (John Gill) Yahweh is merciful and righteous. Our Elohim is compassionate. Yahweh protects [saves] defenseless [simple] people’ “Namely, that pure mind towards God, which, without looking out for help from any other quarter, and free from ali dissimulation, expects salvation from Him alone.” (Augustus F. Tholuck) “They are such as honestly keep the plain way of God's commandments, without those slights, or creeks of carnal policy, for which men are in the world esteemed wise; see Genesis 25:27, where Jacob is called a plain man. Simple or foolish he calls them, because they are generally so esteemed amongst the wise of the world; not that they are so silly as they are esteemed.” (William Slater) “When I was weak, He saved Me.’... The Targum is, ‘He looked upon me to redeem me.’"(4-6) (John Gill) from the grave. Here the harvest.
7 Be at peace again, my soul, because Yahweh has been good to you. 8 You saved me from death. You saved my eyes from tears and my feet from stumbling. 9 I will walk in Yahweh’s presence in this world of the living. 10 I kept my faith even when I said, “I am suffering terribly.” 11 I also said when I was panic-stricken, “Everyone is undependable.” 12 How can I repay Yahweh for all the good that He has done for me? 13 I will take the cup of salvation and call on the name of Yahweh. 14 I will keep my vows to Yahweh in the presence of all His people. 15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints. 16 O Yahweh, I am indeed your servant. I am your servant, the son of your female servant. You have freed me from my chains. 17 I will bring a song of thanksgiving to you as a sacrifice. I will call on the name of Yahweh. 18 I will keep my vows to Yahweh in the presence of all His people, 19 in the courtyards of Yahweh’s house, in the middle of Jerusalem. Hallelujah!
“Be at peace’— literally rest;— ‘my soul’… The word ‘rest’ is put in the plural, as indicating complete and entire rest, at all times, and under all circumstances.” (A. Edersheim) Enter into that rest prepared from the Creation of the world. In six days, Jesus created the heavens and the earth and rested on the seventh day. He invites us to keep His Sabbath day. Here is simple reason for keeping the Sabbath—> You saved me from death. You saved my eyes from tears and my feet from stumbling. I will walk in Yahweh’s presence in this world of the living. I kept my faith even when I said, ‘I am suffering terribly.’ I also said when I was panic-stricken, ‘Everyone is undependable.’” The faith of the congregation will not affect me.
"'How can I repay Yahweh' etc. I will take the cup of salvation and call on His name. “I will keep my vows to Yahweh in the presence of all His people.” Thus is death is thus made sweet. “Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints.” ”O Lord, truly I am thy servant; rather, even so, O Lord, for I am thy servant. Entitled, therefore, to thy care and consideration. I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid (cf. Ps 86:16). 'Thine handmaid' - the Church. ‘You have freed me from my chains.’ The 'cords of death' (ver. 3) are probably intended." (Pulpit Commentary) In the New Jerusalem, I will be the same as I am in my present life. This is a firm precept. Then, as now, “I will bring a song of thanksgiving to you as a sacrifice. I will call on the name of Yahweh. I will keep my vows to Yahweh in the presence of all His people, in the courtyards of Yahweh’s house, in the middle of (New) Jerusalem. Hallelujah!" Praise Yeshua aka Jesus.