I Love the LORD

Psalm 116:1) 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 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!