| English Standard Version | New Living Translation |
| 1I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy. | 1I love the LORD because he hears my voice and my prayer for mercy. |
| 2Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live. | 2Because he bends down to listen, I will pray as long as I have breath! |
| 3The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish. | 3Death wrapped its ropes around me; the terrors of the grave overtook me. I saw only trouble and sorrow. |
| 4Then I called on the name of the LORD: “O LORD, I pray, deliver my soul!” | 4Then I called on the name of the LORD: “Please, LORD, save me!” |
| 5Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; our God is merciful. | 5How kind the LORD is! How good he is! So merciful, this God of ours! |
| 6The LORD preserves the simple; when I was brought low, he saved me. | 6The LORD protects those of childlike faith; I was facing death, and he saved me. |
| 7Return, O my soul, to your rest; for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you. | 7Let my soul be at rest again, for the LORD has been good to me. |
| 8For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling; | 8He has saved me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling. |
| 9I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. | 9And so I walk in the LORD’s presence as I live here on earth! |
| 10I believed, even when I spoke: “I am greatly afflicted”; | 10I believed in you, so I said, “I am deeply troubled, LORD.” |
| 11I said in my alarm, “All mankind are liars.” | 11In my anxiety I cried out to you, “These people are all liars!” |
| 12What shall I render to the LORD for all his benefits to me? | 12What can I offer the LORD for all he has done for me? |
| 13I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD, | 13I will lift up the cup of salvation and praise the LORD’s name for saving me. |
| 14I will pay my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people. | 14I will keep my promises to the LORD in the presence of all his people. |
| 15Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. | 15The LORD cares deeply when his loved ones die. |
| 16O LORD, I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your maidservant. You have loosed my bonds. | 16O LORD, I am your servant; yes, I am your servant, born into your household; you have freed me from my chains. |
| 17I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD. | 17I will offer you a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD. |
| 18I will pay my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people, | 18I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people— |
| 19in the courts of the house of the LORD, in your midst, O Jerusalem. Praise the LORD! | 19in the house of the LORD in the heart of Jerusalem. Praise the LORD! |
| ESV Text Edition: 2016. The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. All rights reserved. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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