Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol; Neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.

New American Standard Bible

For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol;
Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.

King James Version

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

Holman Bible

For You will not abandon me to Sheol;
You will not allow Your Faithful One to see decay.

International Standard Version

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, you will not allow your holy one to experience corruption.

A Conservative Version

For thou will not leave my soul to Sheol, nor will thou allow thy holy man to see corruption.

Amplified


For You will not abandon me to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.

Bible in Basic English

For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.

Darby Translation

For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol, neither wilt thou allow thy Holy One to see corruption.

Julia Smith Translation

For thou wilt not leave my soul to hades; thou wilt not give thy merciful ones to see corruption.

King James 2000

For you will not leave my soul in sheol; neither will you allow your Holy One to see corruption.

Lexham Expanded Bible

for you will not abandon my soul to Sheol; you will not give your faithful one to see [the] grave.

Modern King James verseion

For You will not leave My soul in hell; You will not allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For why? Thou shalt not leave my soul in hell, neither shalt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.

NET Bible

You will not abandon me to Sheol; you will not allow your faithful follower to see the Pit.

New Heart English Bible

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

The Emphasized Bible

For thou wilt not abandon my soul to hades, neither wilt thou suffer thy man of lovingkindness, to see corruption:

Webster

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thy Holy One to see corruption.

World English Bible

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

Youngs Literal Translation

For Thou dost not leave my soul to Sheol, Nor givest thy saintly one to see corruption.

Devotionals

Devotionals about Psalm 16:10

Images Psalm 16:10

Prayers for Psalm 16:10

Context Readings

Confidence In The Lord

9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth; My flesh also shall dwell in safety. 10 For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol; Neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption. 11 Thou wilt show me the path of life: In thy presence is fulness of joy; In thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

Cross References

Psalm 49:15

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol; For he will receive me. Selah

Daniel 9:24

Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

Luke 1:35

And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee: wherefore also the holy thing which is begotten shall be called the Son of God.

Revelation 1:18

and the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

Revelation 20:13

And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

Leviticus 19:28

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am Jehovah.

Numbers 6:6

All the days that he separateth himself unto Jehovah he shall not come near to a dead body.

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And burneth unto the lowest Sheol, And devoureth the earth with its increase, And setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Job 11:8

It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?

Psalm 9:17

The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol, Even all the nations that forget God.

Psalm 139:8

If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there.

Proverbs 15:11

Sheol and Abaddon are before Jehovah: How much more then the hearts of the children of men!

Proverbs 27:20

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Isaiah 5:14

Therefore Sheol hath enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth among them, descend into it .

Isaiah 14:9

Sheol from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

Amos 9:2

Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.

Luke 4:34

Ah! what have we to do with thee, Jesus thou Nazarene? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.

Luke 16:23

And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

Acts 2:27-31

Because thou wilt not leave my soul unto Hades, Neither wilt thou give thy Holy One to see corruption.

Acts 3:14-15

But ye denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted unto you,

Acts 13:35-38

Because he saith also in another psalm , Thou wilt not give Thy Holy One to see corruption.

1 Corinthians 15:42

So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:

1 Corinthians 15:50-55

Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

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