{"podcast":{"title":"Daily Psalms - Classical Psalms Every Day","slug":"daily-psalms-classical-psalms-every-day-6735312","podcast_index_feed_id":6735312,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/daily-psalm-classical-psalms-every-day","website_url":"https://lumivoz.com","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ZVAEpYIuIun1t0gCO0JDGsOI3vfBf9EDlzEWhlmAM0k/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zYTI4/MzVhZWJjYTI1MDMy/ODg4MTI5NzlhMDg5/NmY2ZS5wbmc.jpg","author":"https://lumivoz.com","episode_count":978,"summary":"An audio Psalm a day set to classical music. Begin or end each day meditating on the word of God and the timeless poetry of the Psalms. Each episode is set to beautiful classical and orchestral music that will help you ground your soul in the Bible. For more great podcasts or to hear different Bible translations, visit https://lumivoz.com","last_synced_at":"2026-09-20T08:23:06.791039+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-psalms-classical-psalms-every-day-6735312"},"episode":{"title":"Psalm Chapter 116","slug":"psalm-chapter-116","published_at":"2026-07-12T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-psalms-classical-psalms-every-day-6735312/psalm-chapter-116","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-psalms-classical-psalms-every-day-6735312","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/cef2add7","audio_url":"https://2.gum.fm/op3.dev/e/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/media.transistor.fm/cef2add7/fec98b96.mp3","summary":"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","meta_description":"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 scandalous…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":132,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/daily-psalms-classical-psalms-every-day-6735312/episodes/psalm-chapter-116/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-psalms-classical-psalms-every-day-6735312/psalm-chapter-116.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}