Psalms 66:17

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹³I will enter Your house with burnt offerings; I will fulfill my vows to You- ¹⁴the vows that my lips promised and my mouth spoke in my distress. ¹⁵I will offer You fatlings as burnt offerings, with the fragrant smoke of rams; I will offer bulls and goats. Selah ¹⁶Come and listen, all you who fear God, and I will declare what He has done for me. ¹⁷I cried out to Him with my mouth, and His praise was on my tongue.¹⁸If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. ¹⁹But God has surely heard; He has attended to the sound of my prayer. ²⁰Blessed be God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld from me His loving devotion!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I cried: Psalms 30:8, Psalms 34:3, Psalms 34:4, Psalms 34:6, Psalms 116:1, Psalms 116:2, Psalms 116:12

he was: Psalms 30:1, Psalms 145:1

Reciprocal: Job 22:27 - make thy Psalms 3:4 - I cried Psalms 63:3 - lips

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I cried unto him with my mouth,.... Crying designs prayer, and supposes distress; and crying with the mouth denotes vocal, ardent, and fervent prayer;

and he was extolled with my tongue: at the same time the psalmist prayed for deliverance out of his distresses, he praised God for the mercies he had received: and did, as the Apostle Paul directs, make known his requests with thanksgiving, Philippians 4:6; or "he was exalted under my tongue" g; that is, in his heart, as some interpret it; his heart and his mouth went together; and out of the abundance of his heart his tongue spoke of the goodness, kindness, and mercy of God to him. The Targum is,

"and his promise was under my tongue;''

and so he was very different from a wicked man, who keeps iniquity under his tongue, as a sweet morsel, Job 20:12.

g תחת לשוני "sublingua mea", Montanus, Tigurine version, Vatablus, Musculus, Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I cried unto him with my mouth - That is, in my trouble; when distress came upon me. This, according to the explanation of the design of the psalm given above, is one individual speaking on behalf of the nation, or uttering the sentiment of the people. At the same time, however, all this is language appropriate to an individual when recording his own experience.

And he was extolled with my tongue - I praised him; I acknowledged his supremacy. I recognized my dependence on him, and looked to him as that God who had all things under his control, and who could grant me the deliverance which I desired.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 66:17. I cried unto him with my mouth — My prayer was fervent; he heard and answered; and my tongue celebrated his mercies; and he as graciously received my thanksgiving, as he compassionately heard my prayer.