Psalms 16:2
My soul, you have said to the LORD, “You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing.”
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;
In Context
1Preserve me, God, for I take refuge in you.
3As for the saints who are on the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
Cross References
Job 35:7If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
Psalms 27:8When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, LORD.”
Psalms 50:9I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.
Psalms 89:26He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
Isaiah 26:13LORD our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us, but we will only acknowledge your name.
Zechariah 13:9I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is my God.’”
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 →