Bible Strands
Psalms 118:18
The LORD disciplined me severely, but He has not given me over to death.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist speaks to the assembly of Israel following a period of intense distress, marking the transition from lament to thanksgiving.
The words — יִסַּרְנִי (yissar-ni) literally renders "he has disciplined me," while נְתָנִי (nitan-i) means "he has given me."
The thread — This motif of corrective discipline followed by preservation appears in Job 5:17 and 1 Corinthians 11:32, where divine judgment functions to prevent final condemnation.
Why it lands — The text demands acknowledgment that suffering is not abandonment, requiring the reader to distinguish between corrective discipline and destructive abandonment.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
The Lord hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.
Cross-references
- 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.
- Job 5:17 Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
- 2 Corinthians 6:9 unknown, yet well-known; dying, and yet we live on; punished, yet not killed;
- Proverbs 3:11 My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;
- Psalms 94:12 Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,
- 2 Corinthians 1:9 Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.
- Psalms 66:10 For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.
- Jonah 2:6 To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!
- Job 33:16 He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings
- 2 Samuel 12:10 Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’