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Psalms 116

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Part of Book V📖 Psalms introduction

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1I love the Lord, because He has heard My voice and my supplications. ✦ 2Because He has inclined His ear to me, Therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live. ✦ 3The pains of death surrounded me, And the pangs of Sheol laid hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow. ✦ 4Then I called upon the name of the Lord: “O Lord, I implore You, deliver my soul!” ✦ 5Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; Yes, our God is merciful. ✦ 6The Lord preserves the simple; I was brought low, and He saved me. ✦ 7Return to your rest, O my soul, For the Lord has dealt bountifully with you. ✦ 8For You have delivered my soul from death, My eyes from tears, And my feet from falling. ✦ 9I will walk before the Lord In the land of the living. ✦ 10I believed, therefore I spoke, “I am greatly afflicted.” ✦ 11I said in my haste, “All men are liars.” ✦ 12What shall I render to the Lord For all His benefits toward me? ✦ 13I will take up the cup of salvation, And call upon the name of the Lord. ✦ 14I will pay my vows to the Lord Now in the presence of all His people. ✦ 15Precious in the sight of the Lord Is the death of His saints. ✦ 16O Lord, truly I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have loosed my bonds. ✦ 17I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving, And will call upon the name of the Lord. ✦ 18I will pay my vows to the Lord Now in the presence of all His people, ✦ 19In the courts of the Lord’s house, In the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise the Lord! ✦

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Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Where this chapter connects

Ps 116 ·5Ps 86 ·5Neh 9 ·4Ps 22 ·4Ps 119 ·4Ps 31 ·3Ps 50 ·3Ps 18 ·3

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 116 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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