Psalms 16

Psalms 16:2

My goodness extendeth not to thee.

O God, what have I, or what can I do, that can confer any thing to thee; since thou art infinitely glorious and powerful, and I am not finite only, but weak and miserable?

Psalms 16:4

Their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.

I will have nothing to do with those idolatrous heathen, nor yet with their superstitious and sinful rites: if they pollute themselves with the drink offerings of blood, whether of men or other creatures, I abhor to partake with them; neither will I so much as make mention of the names of their false gods.

Psalms 16:6

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

I cannot envy the greatness and prosperity of these wicked idolaters: no, God hath allotted a happy portion unto me, in comparison of the best of them.

Psalms 16:9

My flesh also shall rest in hope.

I will also lay down this body of mine in the grave, in a certain hope and assurance of my resurrection to immortality.

Psalms 16:10

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

For thou wilt not give me utterly over to that corruption, which shall seize on me in the grave; neither wilt let the body of thy holy servant to vanish away in dust and rottenness; but wilt one day raise it glorious; whereof I am assured by the vir- VOL. III. N tue of my insition into that Christ, whose sacred body thou wilt preserve from the least putrefaction in the earth.