Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 116:10

10 I believed , therefore have I spoken : I was greatly afflicted .

To wit, Gods promise of deliverance and of the Kingdom made to me by Samuel, which I was confident he would perform in spight of discouragements and difficulties.

So these words are translated, as by others, so by the Apostle, 2 Cor. 4. 13. I have spoken, either 1. what I have now said, v. 9. or 2. what I have uttered to others concerning Gods promises made to me. Which I was not ashamed nor afraid to publish when I had occasion, because I was fully perswaded that God would make them good.

Or, when I was, &c. or, although I was, &c. such particles being very frequently understood. The sence is, And this I did even in the midst of many and sore afflictions.

Marginal references: Cor. 4. 13.