UST PSA Chapter 116

116 I love Yahweh

because he hears me when I cry out for him to help me.

2 I love him because he listens to me,

so I will call out to him all during my life.

3 Everything around me caused me to think that I was about to die;

it seemed to me that I was already dying.

I was distressed and very sad.

4 But then I called out to Yahweh.

I said, “Yahweh, I plead with you to save me!”

5 Yahweh is kind and does what is right.

He is the God whom we worship, and he loves us.

6 Yahweh protects those who are helpless;

when I was experiencing bad things, he saved me.

7 I encourage myself to relax once again

because Yahweh has restored me.

8 Indeed, Yahweh has saved me from dying,

he has delivered me from being sorrowful,

and he has kept me from making bad mistakes.

9 So while I am still alive,

I will live as Yahweh directs me.

10 I continued to trust in Yahweh,

even when I said, “As for me, I am greatly suffering.”

11 For my part, I was so distressed that I thought,

“I cannot trust anyone.”

12 I can never repay Yahweh

for all the good things that he has done for me.

13 But I can do this: I will present a cup of wine as a thank offering

as I call out to thank him for saving me.

14 Also, as the people who belong to Yahweh watch,

I will give to him the offerings that I solemnly promised to give to him.

15 Yahweh is very grieved when one of his people dies.

16 Certainly I am one of Yahweh’s people;

I am his servant; I have belonged to him since my mother bore me.

So he saved me from what was going to kill me.

17 So I will offer to him a sacrifice to thank him,

and I will pray to Yahweh.

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As the people who belong to Yahweh watch,

in the courtyard outside his temple,

in the middle of Jerusalem,

I will give to him the offerings that I solemnly promised to give to him.

Praise Yahweh!