Psalm 116 - The Scriptures 2009 The Scriptures 2009
Psalm 116

¹ I love יהוה, because He has heard my voice, my pleas.

² Because He has inclined His ear to me, And I shall call throughout my days.

³ The cords of death were around me, And the pains of She’ol came upon me; I found distress and sorrow.

⁴ Then I called upon the Name of יהוה, “O יהוה, I pray to You, deliver my being!”

⁵ יהוה shows favour and is righteous; And our Elohim is compassionate.

⁶ יהוה guards the simple; I was brought low, but He saved me.

⁷ Return to your rest, O my being, For יהוה has treated you well.

⁸ For You have delivered my being from death, My eyes from tears, My feet from falling.

⁹ I shall walk before יהוה in the land of the living.

¹⁰ I have believed, for I speak; I have been greatly afflicted.

¹¹ I said in my haste, “All men are liars.”

¹² What shall I return to יהוה? All His bounties are upon me.

¹³ I lift up the cup of deliverance, And call upon the Name of יהוה.

¹⁴ I pay my vows to יהוה Now in the presence of all His people.

¹⁵ Precious in the eyes of יהוה Is the death of His lovingly-committed ones.

¹⁶ O יהוה, I am truly Your servant, I am Your servant, the son of Your female servant; You have loosed my bonds.

¹⁷ I slaughter You a slaughtering of thanksgiving, And call upon the Name of יהוה.

¹⁸ I pay my vows to יהוה In the presence of all His people,

¹⁹ In the courts of the House of יהוה, In your midst, O Yerushalayim. Praise Yah!