Psalms 16:5

The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: it is thou that wilt restore my inheritance to me.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.

In Context

4Their infirmities were multiplied: afterwards they made haste. I will not gather together their meetings for blood offerings: nor will I be mindful of their names by my lips.

6The lines are fallen unto me in goodly places: for my inheritance is goodly to me.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:9But the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance.

Joshua 22:27But for a testimony between us and you, and our posterity and yours, that we may serve the Lord, and that we may have a right to offer both holocausts, and victims and sacrifices of peace offerings: and that your children to morrow may not say to our children: You have no part in the Lord.

Psalms 9:4When my enemy shall be turned back: they shall be weakened and perish before thy face.

Psalms 21:7For thou shalt give him to be a blessing for ever and ever: thou shalt make him joyful in gladness with thy countenance.

Psalms 61:6For thou, my God, hast heard my prayer: thou hast given an inheritance to them that fear thy name.

Psalms 89:4I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant:

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 →

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