# Psalm 116 
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1. I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy. 
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2. Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live. 
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3. The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish. 
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4. Then I called on the name of the LORD: “O LORD, I pray, deliver my soul!” 
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5. Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; our God is merciful. 
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6. The LORD preserves the simple; when I was brought low, he saved me. 
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7. Return, O my soul, to your rest; for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you. 
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8. For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling; 
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9. I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. 
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10. I believed, even when I spoke: “I am greatly afflicted”; 
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11. I said in my alarm, “All mankind are liars.” 
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12. What shall I render to the LORD for all his benefits to me? 
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13. I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD, 
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14. I will pay my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people. 
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15. Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. 
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16. O LORD, I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your maidservant. You have loosed my bonds. 
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17. I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD. 
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18. I will pay my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people, 
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19. in the courts of the house of the LORD, in your midst, O Jerusalem. Praise the LORD! 

(ESV)