# Psalm Chapter 116

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Podcast: [Daily Psalms - Classical Psalms Every Day](https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-psalms-classical-psalms-every-day-6735312)
Published: 2026-07-12T09:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Psalm 116: The Love That Begins with a Reason "I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications." There is something almost scandalously honest about this opening — the psalmist does not love God in the abstract, as a philosophical proposition, but because God did something specific: He listened. The sorrows of death had wrapped around him, the pains of hell had taken hold, and in that drowning moment he called out, and God inclined His ear. That word — inclined — suggests God leaning in, turning His head, the way you bend toward someone who is speaking very quietly. And the response is not a theology lecture but a love song. "Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee." Then comes the line that has echoed through centuries of funerals and martyrdoms: "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints." Not precious as in valuable, but precious as in costly — it matters to God, it is not cheap to Him, when one of His own passes through that door. And so the psalmist asks the only question worth asking after such a rescue: "What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me?" The answer: take the cup of salvation and call upon His name. The response to grace is not payment but more receiving. 00:00 I Love the Lord 00:15 The Sorrows of Death 00:25 Return Unto Thy Rest 00:40 Delivered from Death and Tears 00:50 I Believed, Therefore I Spoke 01:00 What Shall I Render? 01:15 Precious Death of His Saints 01:30 The Sacrifice of Thanksgiving 01:50 In the Courts of the Lord

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