Psalms 16:5
Perfect my steps in your paths, so that my footsteps may not be disturbed.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
In Context
6I have cried out because you, O God, have listened to me. Incline your ear to me and heed my words.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:9But the Lord’s portion is his people: Jacob, the lot of his inheritance.
Joshua 22:27but as a testimony between us and you, and between our descendants and your progeny, so that we may serve the Lord, and so that it may be our right to offer holocausts, and victims, and peace offerings, and so that tomorrow your sons may not say to our sons: ‘You have no part in the Lord.’
Psalms 9:4For my enemy will be turned back. They will be weakened and perish before your face.
Psalms 21:7But I am a worm and not a man: a disgrace among men, and an outcast of the people.
Psalms 61:6Yet, truly, my soul will be subject to God. For from him is my patience.
Psalms 89:4For a thousand years before your eyes are like the days of yesterday, which have passed by, and they are like a watch of the night,
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 →