PS 116 This psalm is a solemn thanksgiving to God. Wherein the psalmist professes his love to God, for delivering him out of great straits and dangers, ver. 1-8. Prays for his future protection, and promises to praise him, and to walk holy before him, 9-19.

3. The sorrows - Dangerous and deadly calamities. Pains - Such agonies and horrors, as dying persons use to feel.