Psalm 16:1

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Summary

Psalm 16:1

{Michtam of David.} Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.

Preserve

For

Bible References

Preserve

I carefully obey your commands; I do not deviate from them.

Love the Lord, all you faithful followers of his! The Lord protects those who have integrity, but he pays back in full the one who acts arrogantly.

For the Lord promotes justice, and never abandons his faithful followers. They are permanently secure, but the children of evil men are wiped out.

You who love the Lord, hate evil! He protects the lives of his faithful followers; he delivers them from the power of the wicked.

The Lord protects the untrained; I was in serious trouble and he delivered me.

to guard the paths of the righteous and to protect the way of his pious ones.

For

Your loyal followers trust in you, for you, Lord, do not abandon those who seek your help.

They say, "Commit yourself to the Lord! Let the Lord rescue him! Let the Lord deliver him, for he delights in him."

Protect me and deliver me! Please do not let me be humiliated, for I have taken shelter in you!

O Lord who rules over all, how blessed are those who trust in you!

A song of ascents. Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion; it cannot be upended and will endure forever.

How blessed is the one whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God,

You keep completely safe the people who maintain their faith, for they trust in you.

My blessing is on those people who trust in me, who put their confidence in me.

Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

Because of this, in fact, I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, because I know the one in whom my faith is set and I am convinced that he is able to protect what has been entrusted to me until that day.