He Listens to My Voice 1I have loved, because the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer. 2Because he hath inclined his ear unto me: and in my days I will call upon him. 3The sorrows of death have encompassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow: 4and I called upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, deliver my soul. 5The Lord is merciful and just, and our God sheweth mercy. 6The Lord is the keeper of little ones: I was little and he delivered me. 7Turn, O my soul, into thy rest: for the Lord hath been bountiful to thee. 8For he hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my feet from falling. 9I will please the Lord in the land of the living. 10I have believed, therefore have I spoken; but I have been humbled exceedingly. 11I said in my excess: Every man is a liar. 12What shall I render to the Lord, for all the things he hath rendered unto me? 13I will take the chalice of salvation; and I will call upon the name of the Lord. 14I will pay my vows to the Lord before all his people: 15precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. 16O Lord, for I am thy servant: I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid. Thou hast broken my bonds: 17I will sacrifice to thee the sacrifice of praise, and I will call upon the name of the Lord. 18I will pay my vows to the Lord in the sight of all his people: 19in the courts of the house of the Lord, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. |