Psalms 116
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Psalm 116
Thanksgiving for Recovery from Illness
1 #
Ps 18.1; 66.19 I love the Lord because he has heard
my voice and my supplications.
2 #
Ps 40.1
Because he inclined his ear to me,
therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
3 #
Ps 18.4–6
The snares of death encompassed me;
the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me;
I suffered distress and anguish.
4Then I called on the name of the Lord,
“O Lord, I pray, save my life!”
5 #
Ex 34.6; Ezra 9.15; Neh 9.8; Ps 103.8; 145.17 Gracious is the Lord and righteous;
our God is merciful.
6The Lord protects the simple;
when I was brought low, he saved me.
7 #
Ps 13.6; Jer 6.16; Mt 11.29 Return, O my soul, to your rest,
for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.
8 #
Ps 56.13
For you have delivered my soul from death,
my eyes from tears,
my feet from stumbling.
9I walk before the Lord
in the land of the living.
10 # 116.10 Some early witnesses begin a new psalm here I kept my faith, even when I said,
“I am greatly afflicted”;
11 #
Ps 31.22; Rom 3.4 I said in my consternation,
“Everyone is a liar.”
12What shall I return to the Lord
for all his bounty to me?
13I will lift up the cup of salvation
and call on the name of the Lord;
14 #
Ps 22.25; Jon 2.9 I will pay my vows to the Lord
in the presence of all his people.
15 #
Ps 72.14
Precious in the sight of the Lord
is the death of his faithful ones.
16 #
Ps 86.16; 119.125; 143.12 O Lord, I am your servant;
I am your servant, the child of your serving girl.
You have loosed my bonds.
17 #
v 13
; Ps 50.14I will offer to you a thanksgiving sacrifice
and call on the name of the Lord.
18I will pay my vows to the Lord
in the presence of all his people,
19 #
Ps 96.8; 135.2 in the courts of the house of the Lord,
in your midst, O Jerusalem.
Praise the Lord!
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