Psalm 116 - ESV Online - Literal Word

PSALM 116

I Love the Lord

116:1

I love the Lord, because he has heard

my voice and my pleas for mercy. 2

Because he inclined his ear to me,

therefore I will call on him as long as I live. 3

The snares of death encompassed me;

the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me;

I suffered distress and anguish. 4

Then I called on the name of the Lord:

“O Lord, I pray, deliver my soul!”
5

Gracious is the Lord, and righteous;

our God is merciful. 6

The Lord preserves the simple;

when I was brought low, he saved me. 7

Return, O my soul, to your rest;

for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.
8

For you have delivered my soul from death,

my eyes from tears,

my feet from stumbling; 9

I will walk before the Lord

in the land of the living.
10

I believed, even when I spoke:

“I am greatly afflicted”; 11

I said in my alarm,

“All mankind are liars.”
12

What shall I render to the Lord

for all his benefits to me? 13

I will lift up the cup of salvation

and call on the name of the Lord, 14

I will pay my vows to the Lord

in the presence of all his people.
15

Precious in the sight of the Lord

is the death of his saints. 16

O Lord, I am your servant;

I am your servant, the son of your maidservant.

You have loosed my bonds. 17

I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving

and call on the name of the Lord. 18

I will pay my vows to the Lord

in the presence of all his people, 19

in the courts of the house of the Lord,

in your midst, O Jerusalem.

Praise the Lord!

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