Chapter 116

  1. I Love the Lord I love the Adonai, 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 Adonai, I pray, deliver my soul!
  5. Gracious is the Adonai, 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 Adonai,
  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 Adonai, 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 Adonai.
  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 Adonai, in your midst, O Jerusalem. Praise the Lord!