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title: Psalm 116
slug: kjv/psalm-116
createdAt: 2024-08-28T02:53:43.382Z
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**1 **I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice *and* my supplications.

**2 **Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon *him* as long as I live.

**3 **The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

**4 **Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.

**5 **Gracious *is* the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God *is* merciful.

**6 **The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.

**7 **Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.

**8 **For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, *and* my feet from falling.

**9 **I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

**10 **I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:

**11 **I said in my haste, All men *are* liars.

**12 **What shall I render unto the LORD *for* all his benefits toward me?

**13 **I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD.

**14 **I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.

**15 **Precious in the sight of the LORD *is* the death of his saints.

**16 **O LORD, truly I *am* thy servant; I *am* thy servant, *and* the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.

**17 **I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.

**18 **I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people,

**19 **In the courts of the LORD'S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.