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III

10 [a]I kept faith, even when I said,
    “I am greatly afflicted!”(A)
11 I said in my alarm,
    “All men are liars!”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 116:10 I kept faith, even when I said: even in the days of despair, the psalmist did not lose all hope.

15 [a]Dear in the eyes of the Lord
    is the death of his devoted.(A)
16 Lord, I am your servant,
    your servant, the child of your maidservant;(B)
    you have loosed my bonds.
17 I will offer a sacrifice of praise
    and call on the name of the Lord.(C)
18 I will pay my vows to the Lord(D)
    in the presence of all his people,

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Footnotes

  1. 116:15 Dear in the eyes of the Lord: the meaning is that the death of God’s faithful is grievous to God, not that God is pleased with the death, cf. Ps 72:14. In Wis 3:5–6, God accepts the death of the righteous as a sacrificial burnt offering.