Psalm 116


Thanksgiving for Deliverance from Death
 1 I love the LORD, because He has heard
         My voice and my supplications.
 2 Because He has inclined His ear to me,
         Therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live.
        
 3 The pains of death surrounded me,
         And the pangs of Sheol laid hold of me;
         I found trouble and sorrow.
 4 Then I called upon the name of the LORD:
         “O LORD, I implore You, deliver my soul!”
        
 5 Gracious is the LORD, and righteous;
         Yes, our God is merciful.
 6 The LORD preserves the simple;
         I was brought low, and He saved me.
 7 Return to your rest, O my soul,
         For the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.
        
 8 For You have delivered my soul from death,
         My eyes from tears,
         And my feet from falling.
 9 I will walk before the LORD
         In the land of the living.
 10 I believed, therefore I spoke,
         “I am greatly afflicted.”
 11 I said in my haste,
         “All men are liars.”
        
 12 What shall I render to the LORD
         For all His benefits toward me?
 13 I will take up the cup of salvation,
         And call upon the name of the LORD.
 14 I will pay my vows to the LORD
         Now in the presence of all His people.
        
 15 Precious in the sight of the LORD
         Is the death of His saints.
        
 16 O LORD, truly 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 will call upon the name of the LORD.
        
 18 I will pay my vows to the LORD
         Now in the presence of all His people,
 19 In the courts of the LORD’s house,
         In the midst of you, O Jerusalem.
        
         Praise the LORD!