Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The lot is fallen unto me in fair ground; yea I have a goodly heritage.
New American Standard Bible
Indeed, my heritage is
King James Version
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
Holman Bible
in pleasant places;
indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.
International Standard Version
The boundary lines have fallen in pleasant places for me; truly, I have a beautiful heritage.
A Conservative Version
The lines are fallen to me in pleasant places. Yea, I have a fine heritage.
American Standard Version
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; Yea, I have a goodly heritage.
Amplified
The [boundary] lines [of the land] have fallen for me in pleasant places;
Indeed, my heritage is beautiful to me.
Bible in Basic English
Fair are the places marked out for me; I have a noble heritage.
Darby Translation
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
Julia Smith Translation
The cords fell to me in sweetnesses; also the inheritance was bountiful upon me.
King James 2000
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[The] measuring lines have fallen for me in pleasant places. Yes, [my] inheritance is delightful for me.
Modern King James verseion
The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; yea, I have a beautiful inheritance.
NET Bible
It is as if I have been given fertile fields or received a beautiful tract of land.
New Heart English Bible
The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance.
The Emphasized Bible
The lines, have fallen unto me, in pleasant places, Verily an inheritance that delighteth me.
Webster
The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; yes, I have a goodly heritage.
World English Bible
The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance.
Youngs Literal Translation
Lines have fallen to me in pleasant places, Yea, a beauteous inheritance is for me.
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 16:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Confidence In The Lord
5 The LORD himself is the portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup; thou shalt maintain my lot. 6 The lot is fallen unto me in fair ground; yea I have a goodly heritage. 7 I will thank the LORD for giving me warning: my reins also chasten me in the night season.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Psalm 78:55
He cast out the heathen before them, caused their land to be divided among them for a heritage, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
Jeremiah 3:19
"'I have showed also, how I took thee up being but a child, and gave thee a pleasant land for thine heritage; yea, and a goodly Host of the Heathen: and how I commanded thee, that thou shouldest call me Father only, and not to shrink from me.
Psalm 21:1-3
{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} The King shall rejoice in thy strength, O LORD; exceeding glad shall he be of thy salvation.
Amos 7:17
Wherefore thus sayeth the LORD, 'Thy wife shall be defiled in the city, thy sons and daughters shall be slain with the sword, and thy land shall be measured out with the line. Thou thyself shall die in an unclean land, and Israel shall be driven out of his own country."
John 20:17
Jesus said unto her, "Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to my father. But go to my brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto my father, and your father: to my God and your God."
Romans 8:17
If we be sons, we are also heirs: the heirs, I mean, of God: and heirs annexed with Christ. If so be that we suffer together, that we may be glorified together.
1 Corinthians 3:21-23
Therefore let no man rejoice in men. For all things are yours,
Ephesians 1:18
and lighten the eyes of your minds, that ye might know what thing that hope is, whereunto he hath called you, and what the riches of his glorious inheritance is upon the saints,
Philippians 2:9-11
Wherefore God hath exalted him, and given him a name above all names:
2 Timothy 2:12
If we be patient, we shall also reign with him; If we deny him, he also shall deny us;
Hebrews 12:2
looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, which for the joy that was set before him, abode the cross, and despised the shame, and is set down on the righthand of the throne of God.
Revelation 3:21
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my seat, even as I overcame and have sitten with my father, in his seat.