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