Psalm 116

Psalm 116

Thanksgiving for Recovery from Illness

¹I love the Lord because he has heard

my voice and my supplications.^*

²Because he inclined his ear to me,

therefore I will call on him as long as I live.^*

³The snares of death encompassed me;

the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me;

I suffered distress and anguish.^*

⁴Then I called on the name of the Lord,

“O Lord, I pray, save my life!”

⁵Gracious is the Lord and righteous;

our God is merciful.^*

⁶The Lord protects the simple;

when I was brought low, he saved me.

⁷Return, O my soul, to your rest,

for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.^*

⁸For you have delivered my soul from death,

my eyes from tears,

my feet from stumbling.^*

⁹I walk before the Lord

in the land of the living.

^10eI kept my faith, even when I said,

“I am greatly afflicted”;

¹¹I said in my consternation,

“Everyone is a liar.”^*

¹²What shall I return to the Lord

for all his bounty to me?

¹³I will lift up the cup of salvation

and call on the name of the Lord;

¹⁴I will pay my vows to the Lord

in the presence of all his people.^*

¹⁵Precious in the sight of the Lord

is the death of his faithful ones.^*

¹⁶O Lord, I am your servant;

I am your servant, the child of your serving girl.

You have loosed my bonds.^*

¹⁷I will offer to you a thanksgiving sacrifice

and call on the name of the Lord.^*

¹⁸I will pay my vows to the Lord

in the presence of all his people,

¹⁹in the courts of the house of the Lord,

in your midst, O Jerusalem.

Praise the Lord!^*