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Psalm 116:7

Return to your rest, my soul, for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.

5The LORD is gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.
6The LORD preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.
7Return to your rest, my soul, for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.
8For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
9I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
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Notice

“Return to your rest” speaks to the gap between receiving help and feeling settled, with YHWH’s generosity as the reason to rest.

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Where else Scripture says this

11 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Matthew 11:28“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.Psalm 116 grounds rest in the LORD’s goodness, while Jesus promises rest to those who come to him burdened.
Psalm 13:6I will sing to the LORD, because he has been good to me.Both speakers recall the LORD’s goodness as a reason for their response: rest in Psalm 116 and song in Psalm 13.
Psalm 119:65You have treated your servant well, according to your word, LORD.Both verses look back on the LORD’s good treatment, with Psalm 119 naming his word as the measure of that goodness.
Genesis 8:9but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his …Both passages speak of return and rest, though Genesis describes a dove’s search for a resting place.
Psalm 119:17Do good to your servant. I will live and I will obey your word.Psalm 119 asks the LORD to do good to his servant; Psalm 116 recalls good already received.
Jeremiah 30:10Therefore don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says the LORD. Don’t be dismayed, Israel. For, behold, I will save you from afar, and save your offspring from …Both passages connect return and rest with the LORD’s saving help, remembered in the psalm and promised to Jacob in Jeremiah.
Jeremiah 6:16The LORD says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they …Both passages speak of rest for the soul; Jeremiah connects that rest with walking in the good way the LORD identifies.
Psalm 95:11Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”Both passages connect rest with the LORD, though Psalm 95 records his judgment that some will not enter his rest.
Hebrews 4:8–10For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.Both passages speak of rest, though Hebrews considers whether Joshua gave it, while Psalm 116 addresses the speaker’s own soul.
1 Kings 3:6Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in …Both speakers recall goodness already shown by God; Solomon names the loving kindness shown to David and continued through his son.
Hosea 2:7She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my …Both passages connect return with remembered good, though Hosea describes a wife resolving to return after pursuing other lovers.
Where this verse fits

Anxiety or panic. answered prayer. gratitude.

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Something small to carry out of this verse

Pause for five minutes and recall one kindness from God

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Encouragement

The speaker addresses his own soul after being brought low. Your unsettled feelings need not erase remembered mercy; YHWH’s goodness gives this call to rest its ground.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).