New King James Version
Psalms 16:5
5O Lord, You are the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You maintain my lot.
Psalms 16:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
- New International Version (NIV)Lord, you alone are my portion and my cup; you make my lot secure.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Lord, you alone are my inheritance, my cup of blessing. You guard all that is mine.
Context of Psalms 16:5
3As for the saints who are on the earth, “They are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.” 4Their sorrows shall be multiplied who hasten after another god; Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, Nor take up their names on my lips. O Lord, You are the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You maintain my lot. 6The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; Yes, I have a good inheritance. 7I will bless the Lord who has given me counsel; My heart also instructs me in the night seasons.
Read all of Psalms 16Psalms 16:5 word by word
יְֽהוָ֗ה מְנָת־חֶלְקִ֥י וְכוֹסִ֑י אַ֝תָּ֗ה תּוֹמִ֥יךְ גּוֹרָלִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 16:5
- Psalms 73:26My flesh and my heart fail; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
- Psalms 119:57You are my portion, O Lord; I have said that I would keep Your words.
- Psalms 142:5I cried out to You, O Lord: I said, “You are my refuge, My portion in the land of the living.
- Deuteronomy 32:9For the Lord’s portion is His people; Jacob is the place of His inheritance.
- Jeremiah 10:16The Portion of Jacob is not like them, For He is the Maker of all things, And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance; The Lord of hosts is His name.
- Lamentations 3:24“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I hope in Him!”
- Psalms 11:6Upon the wicked He will rain coals; Fire and brimstone and a burning wind Shall be the portion of their cup.
- Psalms 23:5You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over.
- Psalms 116:13I will take up the cup of salvation, And call upon the name of the Lord.
- Ephesians 5:18And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,
- Psalms 2:6“Yet I have set My King On My holy hill of Zion.”
- Psalms 9:4For You have maintained my right and my cause; You sat on the throne judging in righteousness.
- Psalms 21:7For the king trusts in the Lord, And through the mercy of the Most High he shall not be moved.
- Psalms 61:6You will prolong the king’s life, His years as many generations.
- Psalms 89:4‘Your seed I will establish forever, And build up your throne to all generations.’ ” Selah
- Psalms 110:1The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.”
Commentaries on Psalms 16:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance - The Messiah speaks. Jehovah is the portion of mine inheritance; I seek no earthly good; I desire to do the will of God, and that only. It is God who has given me this lot - to redeem mankind - to have them for mine inheritance. From him I have received the cup of suffering, which I shall drink for their sake, through which I shall impart to them the cup of consolation. He, by the grace of God, has tasted death…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance - In contradistinction from idols. The margin here is, “of my part.” The word properly means “lot, portion, part;” and is applicable to the portion of booty or plunder that fell to anyone; or to the portion of land that belonged to anyone in the division of an estate, 2 Kings 9:10, 2 Kings 9:36-37. The meaning here is, that Yahweh was the being whom the psalmist worshipped as God, and that he sought no…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5The cup of blessing represents how God supplies all the psalmist's needs (Psalm 23:5; see 116:13; compare 75:8; Isaiah 51:17).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5-75-7. God is the chief good, and supplies all need (De 10:9). portion of mine inheritance and of my cup--may contain an allusion to the daily supply of food, and also to the inheritance of Levi (De 18:1, 2). maintainest--or, drawest out my lot--enlargest it. Psa 16:7 carries out this idea more fully.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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