Psaume 116

I love the LORD, who heard me

¹I love the LORD, for he listens when I call to him and plead for mercy. ²Because he has turned his ear toward me, I will call to him all my days. ³The ropes of death were wound around me, and the anguish of Sheol had caught me; I met with distress and grief. ⁴So I cried out to the LORD by name: Please, LORD, save my life! ⁵The LORD shows grace and does what is right; our God is tender and merciful. ⁶The LORD keeps watch over people with no defense; when I sank down helpless, he rescued me. ⁷Come back to your rest, my soul, because the LORD has treated you with kindness. ⁸You have pulled me back from death, kept my eyes from weeping and my feet from tripping. ⁹I will go about my life in the presence of the LORD, here in the lands of the living. ¹⁰I kept my faith even when I said, I am suffering terribly.^{a 11}In my panic I said, Every human being is false. ¹²What return can I make to the LORD for all his kindness to me? ¹³I will lift high the cup of salvation and call out the name of the LORD. ¹⁴What I promised the LORD I will carry out, with all his people looking on. ¹⁵The death of his loyal ones weighs heavily in the sight of the LORD. ¹⁶Yes, LORD, I belong to you as your servant, a servant born to your servant woman; you have untied the ropes that bound me. ¹⁷I will bring you a thank offering and call on the LORD by name. ¹⁸What I promised the LORD I will carry out, with all his people looking on, ¹⁹in the courts of the LORD’s house, within you, Jerusalem. Praise the LORD!