📖 Psalms 116
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I haue loued: because God hath hearde my voyce and my prayers.
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Because he hath enclined his eare vnto me: therfore I wyll call vpon hym as long as I lyue.
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The snares of death compassed me rounde about: and the paynes of hell toke holde on me. I founde anguishe and heauinesse,
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but I called vpon the name of God: saying O God, I beseche thee deliuer my soule
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Gratious is God and ryghteous: our Lorde is mercifull.
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God gardeth the simple: I was brought to the extremitie, and he preserued me.
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Returne O my soule vnto thy rest: for God hath rewarded thee.
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For thou O Lorde hast deliuered my soule from death: myne eyes from teares, and my feete from fallyng.
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I wyll walke before the face of God: in the lande of the lyuyng.
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I beleued, therfore I wyll speake: I was sore afflicted,
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insomuch that I said in my rashnesse euery man is a lyer.
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What rewarde shal I geue vnto God: for all the benefites that he hath done vnto me?
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I wyll take the cuppe of saluation: and I wyll call vpon the name of God.
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I wyll pay my vowes nowe vnto God: in the presence of all his people.
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The death of his saintes: is precious in the eyes of God.
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It is euen so O God, for I am thy seruaunt and the sonne of thy handemayde: thou hast loosed my bondes in sunder.
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I wyll offer vnto thee the sacrifice of thankesgeuyng: and I wyll call vpon the name of God.
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I wyll pay my vowes vnto God in the sight of all his people:
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in the courtes of Gods house, euen in the myddest of thee O Hierusalem. Prayse ye the Lorde.