The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 116:1

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

I love the Lord, because he hath heard; literally, I love, because the Lord (Jehovah) hath heard. The object of this love is not expressed, but can only be Jehovah. Still, the grammatical construction is unusual, and has caused the suggestion of an emendation.

For אהבתי Professor Cheyne would read האמנתי as at the beginning of Psalms 116:10. My voice and my supplications; literally, my voice, my supplications—the latter expression being exegetical of the former.

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