Psalms 16:4
Their sorrows will be increased who go after another god: I will not take drink offerings from their hands, or take their names on my lips.
Bible in Basic English
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In Context
3As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the noble in whom is all my delight.
5The Lord is my heritage and the wine of my cup; you are the supporter of my right.
Cross References
Genesis 35:14And Jacob put up a pillar in the place where he had been talking with God, and put a drink offering on it, and oil.
Leviticus 23:13And let the meal offering with it be two tenth parts of an ephah of the best meal mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the Lord for a sweet smell; and the drink offering with it is to be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.
Psalms 32:10The sinner will be full of trouble; but mercy will be round the man who has faith in the Lord.
Psalms 106:37They even made offerings of their sons and their daughters to evil spirits,
Isaiah 65:11\64:12\In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment?
Jeremiah 7:18The children go for wood, the fathers get the fire burning, the women are working the paste to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and drink offerings are drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 16:2-8
Believing Confidence; Consecration to God. 1 Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust. 2 O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord , Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee; 3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight. 4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips. 5 The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my… Read the whole commentary →