Psalms 116:1-12

I Love the Lord

1 I alove the Lord, because he has bheard
my voice and my pleas for mercy.
2Because he cinclined his ear to me,
therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
3 dThe snares of death encompassed me;
the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me;
I suffered distress and anguish.
4Then eI called on the name of the Lord:
“O Lord, I pray, deliver my soul!”
5 fGracious is the Lord, and grighteous;
our God is hmerciful.
6The Lord preserves ithe simple;
when jI was brought low, he saved me.
7Return, O my soul, to your krest;
for the Lord has ldealt bountifully with you.
8 For myou have delivered my soul from death,
my eyes from tears,
my feet from stumbling;
9I will walk before the Lord
nin the land of the living.
10 oI believed, peven when
Or  believed, indeed; Septuagint believed, therefore
I spoke:
“I am greatly afflicted”;
11 rI said in my alarm,
sAll mankind are liars.”
12 What shall I trender to the Lord
for all his benefits to me?
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