Psalm 116 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Psalm 116 Thanksgiving for Recovery from Illness

¹ I love the Lord because he has heard my voice and my supplications.

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, save my life!”

⁵ Gracious is the Lord and righteous; our God is merciful.

⁶ The Lord protects 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 walk before the Lord in the land of the living.

¹⁰ I kept my faith, even when I said, “I am greatly afflicted”;

¹¹ I said in my consternation, “Everyone is a liar.”

¹² What shall I return to the Lord for all his bounty 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 faithful ones.

¹⁶ O Lord, I am your servant; I am your servant, the child of your serving girl. You have loosed my bonds.

¹⁷ I will offer to you a thanksgiving sacrifice 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!