EXPLANATION OF THE GLOSSING SYSTEM
(to understand how I describe the signs in this translation).
Response: ME WALK WHILE LORD LOOK-DOWN-ON-me, HERE WORLD WE LIVE.
ME TRUST GOD. DOESN'T-MATTER
ME (<) SUFFER, (>) COMPLAIN.
THE-rt LORD CHERISH HIS-rt PEOPLE HAVE FAITH.
HAPPEN THEY-ctr DIE, HE TOUCHED. Response
LORD, REMEMBER ME YOUR-rt SERVANT,
AND MY MOTHER YOUR-rt SERVANT.
MY SLAVERY, LIBERATED FINISH.
THANKS++, ME OFFER-UP TO YOU-rt,
AND ME CRY-OUT-TO LORD HIS-rt NAME. Response
EVERYTHING ME PROMISE THE-rt LORD ME WILL DO,
WHILE (2h)#ALL HIS-rt PEOPLE WITNESS.
WHERE? LORD HIS-rt HOUSE TEMPLE
IN MIDDLE JERUSALEM. Response
Notes: ME - Underlined words are honorific indices ("indexes"), using the FT of the upturned palm to indicate who is being honored.
FAITH - Like THINK TRUST but with elevated hands and eyes to show the trust is spiritual. For an animated gif of this sign, see Animated dictionary of religious signs - Deaf Missions: Faith.
TOUCHED - Middle finger of [open 8] strikes heart.
LIBERATED - Starts like PRESSURE, DH [B], PO down, FO away, push down slightly on [S], PO > DS, FO away, then the DH is brought upwards suddenly and the signer mouths "off".
CRY-OUT-TO - [5:] holds palm to mouth and then hand moves up and away as if the sound is leaving the mouth.
(2h)#ALL - (2h)[A], POs ><, FOs up, are held at shoulder height and move away while opening to (2h)[L].
WITNESS - [1] touches under eye while head moves down.
TEMPLE - T-CHURCH.
JERUSALEM - [B with thumbs flush with other fingers but not folded into palm], touches mouth and then pronates.
Lyrics (Psalm 116:10, 15, 16-17, 18-19):
Response: I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living.
I believed even when I said,
"I am greatly afflicted."
Precious in the eyes of the Lord
is the death of his faithful ones. Response
O Lord, I am your servant;
I am your servant the son of your handmaid;
you have loosed my bonds.
To you will I offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving,
and I will call upon the name of the Lord. Response
My vows to the Lord,
I will pay in the presence of all his people,
in the courts of the house of the Lord,
in your midst, O Jerusalem. Response