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Psalms 16
David's psalm of trust reads on two layers. The surface: a soul choosing Jehovah as the portion of his inheritance, refusing the drink offerings of foreign gods, delighting in the saints who are in the earth—the covenant remnant. The inheritance-lines fallen in pleasant places name the goodly heritage of lineage and lot maintained by the Lord. But verse 10 breaks past David himself—'thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption'—the explicit resurrection prophecy of Jehovah in the flesh, whose body would not decay in the grave. The path of life, the presence, the right hand: the risen Christ, and the pattern for all who set Him always before them.
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 lot.
6
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
7
I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
8
I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
9
Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
10
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
11
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
