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¹ I am well pleased, because the Lord will hearken to the voice of my supplication. ² Because he has inclined his ear to me, therefore will I call upon him while I live. ³ The pangs of death compassed me; the dangers of hell found me: I found affliction and sorrow. ⁴ Then I called on the name of the Lord: O Lord, deliver my soul. ⁵ The Lord is merciful and righteous; yea, our God has pity. ⁶ The Lord preserves the simple: I was brought low, and he delivered me. ⁷ Return to thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord has dealt bountifully with thee. ⁸ For he has delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. ⁹ I shall be well-pleasing before the Lord in the land of the living.

¹⁰ I believed, wherefore I have spoken: but I was greatly afflicted. ¹¹ And I said in mine amazement, Every man is a liar. ¹² What shall I render to the Lord for all the things wherein he has rewarded me? ¹³ I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon 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 thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast burst by bonds asunder. ¹⁷ I will offer to thee the sacrifice of praise, and will call upon the name of the Lord. ¹⁸ I will pay my vows unto the Lord, in the presence of all his people, ¹⁹ in the courts of the Lord’s house, in the midst of thee, Jerusalem.