Testaments

Psalms - Chapter 116 - A Conservative Version

  1. I love LORD because he hears my voice and my supplications.
  2. Because he has inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call as long as I live.
  3. The cords of death encompassed me, and the pains of Sheol got hold upon me. I found trouble and sorrow.
  4. Then I called upon the name of LORD. O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
  5. Gracious is LORD, and righteous. Yea, our God is merciful.
  6. LORD preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.
  7. Return to thy rest, O my soul, for LORD has dealt bountifully with thee.
  8. For thou have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from falling.
  9. I will walk before LORD in the land of the living.
  10. I believed, therefore I have spoken, but I was greatly afflicted.
  11. I said in my haste, All men are liars.
  12. What shall I render to LORD for all his benefits toward me?
  13. I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of LORD.
  14. I will pay my vows to LORD, yea, in the presence of all his people.
  15. Precious in the sight of LORD is the death of his sanctified.
  16. O LORD, truly I am thy servant. I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid. Thou have loosed my bonds.
  17. I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of LORD.
  18. I will pay my vows to LORD, yea, in the presence of all his people,
  19. in the courts of LORD's house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye LORD.