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I Love the Lord

 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^[a] 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!

Footnotes:

1. Psalm 116:10 Or believed, indeed; Septuagint believed, therefore

Cross references:

1. Psalm 116:1 : Ps. 18:1
2. Psalm 116:1 : Ps. 66:19; 118:21
3. Psalm 116:2 : [Ps. 31:2]
4. Psalm 116:3 : See Ps. 18:4
5. Psalm 116:4 : Ps. 118:5; See Ps. 18:6
6. Psalm 116:5 : See Ps. 86:15
7. Psalm 116:5 : Ps. 7:9; 119:137; 145:17; Ezra 9:15; Neh. 9:8; Jer. 12:1; Dan. 9:7
8. Psalm 116:5 : See Ps. 62:12
9. Psalm 116:6 : See Ps. 19:7
10. Psalm 116:6 : Ps. 79:8; 142:6
11. Psalm 116:7 : Jer. 6:16; [Matt. 11:28]
12. Psalm 116:7 : See Ps. 13:6
13. Psalm 116:8 : Ps. 49:15; 56:13; [Ps. 86:13]
14. Psalm 116:9 : See Ps. 27:13
15. Psalm 116:10 : Cited 2 Cor. 4:13
16. Psalm 116:10 : [Ps. 39:3]
17. Psalm 116:11 : Ps. 31:22
18. Psalm 116:11 : [Ps. 62:9]
19. Psalm 116:12 : 2 Chr. 32:25
20. Psalm 116:13 : [Ps. 16:5]
21. Psalm 116:13 : See Ps. 99:6; 105:1
22. Psalm 116:14 : See Ps. 50:14
23. Psalm 116:15 : See Ps. 72:14
24. Psalm 116:15 : See Ps. 50:5
25. Psalm 116:16 : Ps. 119:125; 143:12; [Ps. 113:1]
26. Psalm 116:16 : Ps. 86:16
27. Psalm 116:16 : [Job 12:18]
28. Psalm 116:17 : See Ps. 50:14
29. Psalm 116:17 : [See ver. 13 above]; See Ps. 99:6; 105:1
30. Psalm 116:18 : [See ver. 14 above]; See Ps. 50:14
31. Psalm 116:19 : See Ps. 92:13
32. Psalm 116:19 : See Ps. 104:35