Psalm 116
Thanksgiving for Recovery from Illness
1 I love the Lord because he has heard
my voice and my supplications.(A)
2 Because he inclined his ear to me,
therefore I will call on him as long as I live.(B)
3 The snares of death encompassed me;
the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me;
I suffered distress and anguish.(C)
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.(D)
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.(E)
8 For you have delivered my soul from death,
my eyes from tears,
my feet from stumbling.(F)
9 I walk before the Lord
in the land of the living.
10 [a]I kept my faith, even when I said,
“I am greatly afflicted”;
11 I said in my consternation,
“Everyone is a liar.”(G)
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.(H)
15 Precious in the sight of the Lord
is the death of his faithful ones.(I)
16 O Lord, I am your servant;
I am your servant, the child of your serving girl.
You have loosed my bonds.(J)
17 I will offer to you a thanksgiving sacrifice
and call on the name of the Lord.(K)
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!(L)
Footnotes
- 116.10Some early witnesses begin a new psalm here
Cross references
- 116.1 : Ps 18.1; 66.19
- 116.2 : Ps 40.1
- 116.3 : Ps 18.4–6
- 116.5 : Ex 34.6; Ezra 9.15; Neh 9.8; Ps 103.8; 145.17
- 116.7 : Ps 13.6; Jer 6.16; Mt 11.29
- 116.8 : Ps 56.13
- 116.11 : Ps 31.22; Rom 3.4
- 116.14 : Ps 22.25; Jon 2.9
- 116.15 : Ps 72.14
- 116.16 : Ps 86.16; 119.125; 143.12
- 116.17 : v 13; Ps 50.14
- 116.19 : Ps 96.8; 135.2