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    Psalms 116

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    Belief arrives here not as composure but as the cry, “I am greatly afflicted,” followed by the alarming verdict, “All men are liars!”

    A cry heard among the ropes of deathvv. 1–11

    The speaker begins with love because the LORD has heard an appeal for mercy, then recalls a predicament with the theatrical efficiency of a net: ropes of death, the anguish of Sheol, trouble, sorrow. He calls, “O LORD, deliver my soul!” and is saved. The soul is told to return to its rest; eyes, feet, and life are restored. Yet belief does not produce a serene little speech. It produces, first, “I am greatly afflicted,” and then, in alarm, the astonishingly broad “All men are liars!”

    The cup, the vows, and the curious worth of deathvv. 12–19

    The question now is how goodness can be answered. The speaker proposes a cup of salvation, vows fulfilled publicly, a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and the repeated calling on the name of the LORD. In the middle of this celebration comes the startling sentence, “Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints,” set beside the earlier deliverance from death. The speaker calls himself the LORD’s servant, says his bonds have been broken, and ends not in private gratitude but in the courts of the LORD’s house, in Jerusalem, with vows and a Hallelujah.

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    1. Ps 116:1I love the LORD, for He has heard my voice—my appeal for mercy.

    2. Ps 116:2Because He has inclined His ear to me, I will call on Him as long as I live.

    3. Ps 116:3The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.

    4. Ps 116:4Then I called on the name of the LORD: “O LORD, deliver my soul!”

    5. Ps 116:5The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion.

    6. Ps 116:6The LORD preserves the simplehearted; I was helpless, and He saved me.

    7. Ps 116:7Return to your rest, O my soul, for the LORD has been good to you.

    8. Ps 116:8For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.

    9. Ps 116:9I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

    10. Ps 116:10I believed, therefore I said, “I am greatly afflicted.”

    11. Ps 116:11In my alarm I said, “All men are liars!”

    12. Ps 116:12How can I repay the LORD for all His goodness to me?

    13. Ps 116:13I will lift the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD.

    14. Ps 116:14I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all His people.

    15. Ps 116:15Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints.

    16. Ps 116:16Truly, O LORD, I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have broken my bonds.

    17. Ps 116:17I will offer to You a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD.

    18. Ps 116:18I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all His people,

    19. Ps 116:19in the courts of the LORD’s house, in your midst, O Jerusalem. Hallelujah!

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 15Psalms 72:14He will redeem them from oppression and violence, for their blood is precious in his sight.
    • 11 John 4:19We love because He first loved us.
    • 121 Corinthians 6:20you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
    • 12Psalms 103:2Bless the LORD, O my soul, and do not forget all His kind deeds—
    • 1Psalms 66:19–20But God has surely heard; He has attended to the sound of my prayer.
    • 8Psalms 56:13For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
    • 102 Corinthians 4:13And in keeping with what is written, “I believed, therefore I have spoken,” we who have the same spirit of faith also believe and therefore speak,
    • 122 Corinthians 5:14–15For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
    • 12Romans 12:1Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
    • 122 Chronicles 32:25But because his heart was proud, Hezekiah did not repay the favor shown to him. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
    • 2Psalms 145:18–19The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.
    • 8Revelation 21:4‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”
    • 12Psalms 51:12–14Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit.
    • 11 John 5:2–3By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.
    • 151 Samuel 25:29And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.
    • 16Psalms 86:16Turn to me and have mercy; grant Your strength to Your servant; save the son of Your maidservant.

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