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Psalms 116
Alleluia!
1 I love! For Yahweh listens to my entreaty;
2 he bends down to listen to me when I call.
3 Death’s cords were tightening round me, the nooses of Sheol; distress and anguish gripped me,
4 I invoked the name of Yahweh: ‘Yahweh, rescue me!’
5 Yahweh is righteous and merciful, our God is tenderhearted;
6 Yahweh defends the simple, he saved me when I was brought to my knees.
7 Return to your resting place, my soul, Yahweh has treated you kindly.
8 He has rescued (me from death) my eyes from tears and my feet from stumbling.
9 (I will walk in Yahweh’s presence in the land of the living.)[*a]
10 I have faith, even when I say, ‘I am completely crushed’.
11 In my alarm, I declared, ‘No man can be relied on’.
12 What return can I make to Yahweh for all his goodness to me?
13 I will offer libations to my saviour, invoking the name of Yahweh.
14 (I will pay what I vowed to Yahweh; may his whole nation be present!)
15 The death of the devout costs Yahweh dear.
16 Yahweh, I am your servant, your servant, son of a pious mother, you undo my fetters.
17 I will offer you the thanksgiving sacrifice, invoking the name of Yahweh.
9 I will walk in Yahweh’s presence in the land of the living.
18 I will pay what I vowed to Yahweh; may his whole nation be present,
19 in the courts of the house of Yahweh, in your heart, Jerusalem.