Psalms 16:6
My possessions are fallen in agreeable places: yea, my heritage is pleasant to me.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
In Context
5Thou, O Lord, art the portion of my inheritance, and my cup; thou hast drawn my lot.
7I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel: also in the night seasons my reins admonish me.
Cross References
Psalms 61:6(61:7) Oh, add days unto the king's days: may his years be as of many generations.
Jeremiah 3:19But I had thought, How shall I establish thee among the [other] sons [of man], and give thee a desirable land, a heritage of glory of the hosts of nations? and I thought, My father thou wouldst call me, and that from me thou wouldst not turn away.
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 →