Psalms 116

Which worship songs are based on Psalms 116?

  1. The Sound — Mary Mary (2008) Psalms 116:1-2

    The closing section incorporates Isaac Watts’s hymn adaptation of Psalm 116, explicitly linking love for the Lord with his hearing of distressed prayer. This recognizable adaptation provides a specific scriptural foundation for the song’s assurance that God hears suffering.

  2. Psalm 119 (Nun) — Sons of Korah (2023) Psalms 116:1-9

    The lyrics closely follow the entire opening movement of Psalm 116, progressing from answered prayer and mortal distress through a plea for deliverance, confession of God's compassion, renewed rest, and preservation from death, tears, and stumbling.

  3. Psalm 116 — Sons of Korah (2020) Psalms 116:1-9

    The song is a close musical rendering of the psalm’s opening movement, recounting an answered cry for mercy, entanglement by death, divine compassion, renewed rest, and deliverance of the whole person.

  4. Thank You God for Saving Me — Chris Tomlin (2013) Psalms 116:1-4

    The opening question about repaying God's goodness closely adapts verse 12. The chorus reinforces this connection by recounting prayer heard and deliverance from death.

  5. Here I Am to Worship — Israel & New Breed (2021) Psalms 116:12

    The spontaneous question about what could possibly be rendered to God for all he has done closely echoes the psalmist's question about how to respond to God's benefits.

  6. How Do I Thank You — Mosaic MSC (2022) Psalms 116:12-17

    The song closely follows the psalm's movement from asking how to respond to God's goodness and deliverance toward presenting gratitude as an offering.

Psalms 116 (King James Version)

1 I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.

2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.

3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

4 Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.

5 Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.

6 The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.

7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.

8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

10 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:

11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.

12 What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me?

13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD.

14 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.

15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.

16 O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.

17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.

18 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people,

19 In the courts of the LORD’s house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.