Dilexi quoniam. Ps.116.N.

David being in great danger of Saul in the desert of Maon, perceiving the great and inestimable love of God towards him, magnifieth such great mercies, and protesteth that he will be thankful for the same.

Sing this as the 111 Psalm.
The first part The second part
I love the Lord, because my voice
and prayer heard hath he:
 
2 When in my days I called on him,
he bowed his ear to me.
 
3 Even when the snares of cruel death
about beset me round:
When pains of hell me caught and when
I woe and sorrow found.
 
4 Upon the name of God the Lord,
then did I call and say:
Deliver thou my soul O Lord,
I do thee humbly pray.
 
5 The Lord is very merciful,
and just he is also:
And in our God compassion
doth plentifully flow.
 
6 The Lord in safety doth preserve
all those that simple be:
I was in woeful misery
and he relived me.
 
7 And now my soul, sith thou art safe
return unto thy rest:
For largely lo the Lord to thee
his bounty hath expressed.
 
8 Because thou hast delivered
my soul from deadly thrall:
My moistened eyes from mournful tears,
my sliding feet from fall.
 
9 Before the Lord I in the land
of life will walk therefore:
 
10 I did believe, therefore I spake,
for I was troubled sore.
11 I said in my distress and fear,
that all men liars be:
 
12 What shall I pay the Lord for all
his benefits to me?
 
13 The wholesome cup of saving health
I thankfully will take:
And on the Lord’s name I will call
when I my prayer make.
 
14 I to the Lord will pay the vows,
that I have him behight:
Yea, even at this present time,
in all his peoples sight,
 
15 Right dear and precious in his sight
the Lord doth aye esteem
The death of all his holy ones,
whatever men do deem.
 
16 Thy servant Lord, thy servant lo
I do myself confess:
Son of thy handmaid, thou hast broke
the bonds of my distress.
 
17 And I will offer up to thee
a sacrifice of praise,
And I will call upon the name
of God the Lord always.
 
18 I to the Lord will pay the vows,
that I have him behight:
Yea, even at this present time,
in all his people’s sight.
 
19 Yea, in the courts of God’s own house,
and in the midst of thee,
O thou Jerusalem, I say:
wherefore the Lord praise ye.

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