“I love the Lord, because He has heard
my voice and my pleas for mercy.
Because He inclined His ear to me,
therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
The snares of death encompassed me;
the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me;
I suffered distress and anguish.
Then I called on the name of the Lord:
‘O Lord, I pray, deliver my soul!’
Gracious is the Lord, and righteous;
our God is merciful.
The Lord preserves the simple;
when I was brought low, He saved me.
Return, O my soul, to your rest;
for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.
For You have delivered my soul from death,
my eyes from tears,
my feet from stumbling;
I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.
I believed, even when I spoke:
‘I am greatly afflicted’;
I said in my alarm,
‘All mankind are liars.’
What shall I render to the Lord
for all His benefits to me?
I will lift up the cup of salvation
and call on the name of the Lord,
I will pay my vows to the Lord
in the presence of all His people.
Precious in the sight of the Lord
is the death of His saints.
O Lord, I am Your servant;
I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant.
You have loosed my bonds.
I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving
and call on the name of the Lord.
I will pay my vows to the Lord
in the presence of all His people,
in the courts of the house of the Lord,
in your midst, O Jerusalem.
Praise the Lord!”