PSALM 16
The Memorable Thoughts of David
"Keep and protect me, O God; for in You I have found refuge,
and in You do I put my trust and hide myself.
I say to the Lord, You are my Lord: I have no good beside or beyond You.
As for the godly, the saints, who are in the land, they are excellent,
the noble, and the glorious, in whom is all my delight.
Their sorrows shall be multiplied who choose another god; their
drink offerings of blood will I not offer or take their names upon my lips.
The Lord is my chosen and assigned portion, my cup; You hold and maintain my lot.
The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; yes, I have a good heritage.
I will bless the Lord, Who has given me counsel;
yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.
I have set the Lord continually before me;
because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Therefore my heart is glad and my glory, my inner self, rejoices;
my body too shall rest and confidently dwell in safety.
For You will not abandon me to Sheol, the place of the dead,
neither will You suffer Your Holy One to see corruption.
You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy,
at Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore."
"For David says in regard to Him, I saw the Lord constantly before me,
for He is at my right hand that I may not be shaken or overthrown or
cast down from my secure and happy state.
Therefore my heart rejoiced and my tongue exulted exceedingly; moreover,
my flesh also will dwell in hope in anticipation of the resurrection.
For You will not abandon my soul, leaving it helpless in Hades ("Sheol" in Hebrew),
the state of departed spirits, nor let Your Holy One know decay or see
the destruction of the body after death.
You have made known to me the ways of life; You will enrapture me,
diffusing my soul with joy within Your Presence.
Brethren, it is permitted me to tell you confidently and with freedom
concerning the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried,
and his tomb is with us to this day.
Being however a prophet, and knowing that God sealed him with
an oath that He would set one of his descendants on the throne,
He, foreseeing this, spoke by foreknowledge of the resurrection of the Christ,
the Messiah, that He was not deserted in death and left in Hades, the state of
departed spirits, nor did His body know decay or see destruction.
This Jesus God raised up, and of that, all we, His disciples, are witnesses."
(Acts 2:25-32)
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