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Psalm 16
- Purpose
- To offer praise and prayer to God, to supply God’s people with texts for worship, and to provide reflection on the sovereignty of God and some of life’s toughest questions
- Author
- Various; nearly half are linked with David
- Date
- Written over the course of many centuries; the process of collecting and editing was likely completed after the Babylonian exile
- Setting
- Varied, but a postexilic setting accounts for much of the editorial activity and grouping of the psalms
Psalms has 36,194 words: about 2 hours 32 minutes to read, or 4 hours 18 minutes to listen to. Read it from the start or listen from the start.
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The full introduction to Psalms opens beside chapter 1, in the Tyndale commentary.
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Michtam of David.
1
2O my soul, thou hast
3But to the
4Their
5The
6The
7I will
8I have
9Therefore my
10For thou wilt not
11Thou wilt
Footnotes
The Presence of the LORD
A Miktam of David.
1Preserve me, O God,for in You I take refuge.
2I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord;apart from You I have no good thing.” 3As for the saints in the land,they are the excellencein whom all my delight resides. 4Sorrows will multiplyto those who chase other gods.I will not pour out their libations of blood,or speak their names with my lips.
5The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup;You have made my lot secure. 6The lines of my boundary have fallen in pleasant places;surely my inheritance is delightful. 7I will bless the LORD who counsels me;even at night my conscience instructs me.footnote a
8I have setfootnote bthe LORD always before me.Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. 9Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;my body also will dwell securely.footnote c 10For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol,nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.footnote d 11You have made known to me the path of life;You will fill me with joy in Your presence,footnote ewith eternal pleasures at Your right hand.
Footnotes
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