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Psalm 116

¹I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.
²Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.
³The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
⁴Then called I upon the name of the Lord; O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
⁵Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.
⁶The Lord preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
⁷Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.
⁸For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
⁹I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.
¹⁰I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
¹¹I said in my haste, All men are liars.
¹²What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me?
¹³I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord.
¹⁴I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people.
¹⁵Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
¹⁶O Lord, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
¹⁷I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the Lord.
¹⁸I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people.
¹⁹In the courts of the Lord’s house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord.

3Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
²She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord; she drew not near to her God.
³Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
⁴Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
⁵The just Lord is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
⁶I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
⁷I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.
⁸Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the Lord, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

13Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
²Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
³For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
⁴For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
⁵Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
⁶For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
⁷Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
⁸Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
⁹For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
¹⁰Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
¹¹And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
¹²The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
¹³Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
¹⁴But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.