Psalms 116
116
I’m Saved
1I am passionately in love with God because he listens to me.
He hears my prayers and answers them.
2As long as I live I’ll keep praying to him,
for he stoops down to listen to my heart’s cry.
3Death once stared me in the face,
and I was close to slipping into its dark shadows.
I was terrified and overcome with sorrow.
4I cried out to the Lord, “God, come and save me!”
5He was so kind, so gracious to me.
Because of his passion toward me,
he made everything right and he restored me.
6So I’ve learned from my experience
that God protects the vulnerable.
For I was broken and brought low,
but he answered me and came to my rescue!
7Now I can say to myself and to all,
“Relax and rest, be confident and serene,
for the Lord rewards fully those who simply trust in him.”
8God has rescued my soul from death’s fear
and dried my eyes of many tears.
He’s kept my feet firmly on his path
9and strengthened me so that I may please him # 116:9 As translated from the Septuagint.
and walk before Yahweh in his fields of life.
10-11Even when it seems I’m surrounded
by many liars and my own fears,
and though I’m hurting in my suffering and trauma,
I still stay faithful to God and speak words of faith.
12So now, what can I ever give back to God
to repay him for the blessings he’s poured out on me?
13I will lift up his cup of salvation and praise him extravagantly
for all that he’s done for me.
14I will fulfill the promise I made to God
in the presence of his gathered people.
15When one of God’s holy lovers dies,
it is costly to the Lord, touching his heart.
16Lord, because I am your loving servant,
you have broken open my life and freed me from my chains.
17Now I’ll worship you passionately and bring to you
my sacrifice of praise, drenched with thanksgiving!
18I’ll keep my promise to you, God,
in the presence of your gathered people, just like I said I would.
19I will worship you here in your living presence,
in the temple in Jerusalem.
I will worship and sing hallelujah, for I praise you, Lord!
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116
Thanksgiving to God Who Saves from Death
I
1I love the Lord, who listened
to my voice in supplication,
2Who turned an ear to me
on the day I called.
3I was caught by the cords of death;#The cords of death: death is personified here; it attempts to capture the psalmist with snares and nets, cf. Ps 18:6.#Ps 18:5; Jon 2:3.
the snares of Sheol had seized me;
I felt agony and dread.
4Then I called on the name of the Lord,
“O Lord, save my life!”
II
5Gracious is the Lord and righteous;
yes, our God is merciful.#Ex 34:6.
6The Lord protects the simple;
I was helpless, but he saved me.
7Return, my soul, to your rest;
the Lord has been very good to you.#Ps 13:6.
8For my soul has been freed from death,
my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.#Ps 56:14; Is 25:8; Rev 21:4.
9I shall walk before the Lord
in the land of the living.#The land of the living: the phrase elsewhere is an epithet of the Jerusalem Temple (cf. Ps 27:13; 52:5; Is 38:11). Hence the psalmist probably refers to being present to God in the Temple.#Ps 27:13; 56:14; Is 38:11.
III
10#I kept faith, even when I said: even in the days of despair, the psalmist did not lose all hope.I kept faith, even when I said,
“I am greatly afflicted!”#2 Cor 4:13.
11I said in my alarm,
“All men are liars!”#Ps 12:2.
12How can I repay the Lord
for all the great good done for me?
13I will raise the cup of salvation#The cup of salvation: probably the libation of wine poured out in gratitude for rescue, cf. Ex 25:29; Nm 15:5, 7, 10.
and call on the name of the Lord.
14I will pay my vows to the Lord
in the presence of all his people.
15#Dear in the eyes of the Lord: the meaning is that the death of God’s faithful is grievous to God, not that God is pleased with the death, cf. Ps 72:14. In Wis 3:5–6, God accepts the death of the righteous as a sacrificial burnt offering.Dear in the eyes of the Lord
is the death of his devoted.#Ps 72:14; Is 43:4.
16Lord, I am your servant,
your servant, the child of your maidservant;#Ps 86:16; 143:12; Wis 9:5.
you have loosed my bonds.
17I will offer a sacrifice of praise
and call on the name of the Lord.#Lv 7:12ff.
18I will pay my vows to the Lord#Jon 2:10.
in the presence of all his people,
19In the courts of the house of the Lord,
in your midst, O Jerusalem.
Hallelujah!
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