Psalm

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
  13. 13
  14. 14
  15. 15
  16. 16
  17. 17
  18. 18
  19. 19
  20. 20
  21. 21
  22. 22
  23. 23
  24. 24
  25. 25
  26. 26
  27. 27
  28. 28
  29. 29
  30. 30
  31. 31
  32. 32
  33. 33
  34. 34
  35. 35
  36. 36
  37. 37
  38. 38
  39. 39
  40. 40
  41. 41
  42. 42
  43. 43
  44. 44
  45. 45
  46. 46
  47. 47
  48. 48
  49. 49
  50. 50
  51. 51
  52. 52
  53. 53
  54. 54
  55. 55
  56. 56
  57. 57
  58. 58
  59. 59
  60. 60
  61. 61
  62. 62
  63. 63
  64. 64
  65. 65
  66. 66
  67. 67
  68. 68
  69. 69
  70. 70
  71. 71
  72. 72
  73. 73
  74. 74
  75. 75
  76. 76
  77. 77
  78. 78
  79. 79
  80. 80
  81. 81
  82. 82
  83. 83
  84. 84
  85. 85
  86. 86
  87. 87
  88. 88
  89. 89
  90. 90
  91. 91
  92. 92
  93. 93
  94. 94
  95. 95
  96. 96
  97. 97
  98. 98
  99. 99
  100. 100
  101. 101
  102. 102
  103. 103
  104. 104
  105. 105
  106. 106
  107. 107
  108. 108
  109. 109
  110. 110
  111. 111
  112. 112
  113. 113
  114. 114
  115. 115
  116. 116
  117. 117
  118. 118
  119. 119
  120. 120
  121. 121
  122. 122
  123. 123
  124. 124
  125. 125
  126. 126
  127. 127
  128. 128
  129. 129
  130. 130
  131. 131
  132. 132
  133. 133
  134. 134
  135. 135
  136. 136
  137. 137
  138. 138
  139. 139
  140. 140
  141. 141
  142. 142
  143. 143
  144. 144
  145. 145
  146. 146
  147. 147
  148. 148
  149. 149
  150. 150

Thanksgiving for God’s Deliverance

116 
I love him, because Yahweh has heard

the voice of my supplications.[a]

2 Because he has inclined his ear to me,

I will call all my days.[b]

3 The ropes of death encircled me,

and the distresses of Sheol found me.

I found trouble and grief.

4 Then I called on the name of Yahweh:

“O Yahweh, please save my life!”

5 Gracious is Yahweh and righteous,

and our God is merciful.

6 Yahweh watches over the simple.

I was brought low, but he gave me victory.

7 Return, O my soul, to your repose,

for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.

8 For you have rescued me[c] from death,

my eyes[d] from tears, my feet from stumbling.

9 I will walk before Yahweh

in the land[e] of the living.

10 I believed when I spoke,

“I am afflicted greatly.”

11 I said in my haste,

“Everyone[f] is a liar.”

12 What shall I give back to Yahweh

for all his benefits to me?

13 I will lift up the cup of salvation

and proclaim the name of Yahweh.

14 I will pay my vows made to Yahweh

in the presence of all his people.

15 Costly in Yahweh’s view[g] is

the death of his faithful ones.

16 Ah, Yahweh, I am indeed your servant;

I am your servant, the child of your maidservant.

You have loosed my bonds.

17 I will offer to you a sacrifice of thanksgiving,

and proclaim the name of Yahweh.

18 I will pay my vows made to Yahweh

in the presence of all his people,

19 in the courts of the house[h] of Yahweh,

in the midst of you, O Jerusalem.

Praise Yah![i]

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 116:1 Literally “my voice, my supplications”
  2. Psalm 116:2 Literally “in my days”
  3. Psalm 116:8 Hebrew “my soul.” If “soul” is accepted, then “death” means “the place of death,” that is, the netherworld.
  4. Psalm 116:8 Hebrew “eye”
  5. Psalm 116:9 Hebrew “lands”
  6. Psalm 116:11 Literally “All of the humankind”
  7. Psalm 116:15 Literally “in the eyes of Yahweh”
  8. Psalm 116:19 Or “temple”
  9. Psalm 116:19 Hebrew hallelujah