Psalms 16:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; You have made my lot secure.”
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“The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; You have made my lot secure.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Jehovah is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: Thou maintainest my lot.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> the portion of my share, and of my cup, Thou--Thou dost uphold my lot.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 16:5 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 18:2Although they have no inheritance among their brothers, the LORD is their inheritance, as He promised them.
- Deuteronomy 32:9But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.
- Joshua 22:25For the LORD has made the Jordan a border between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no share in the LORD!’ So your descendants could cause ours to stop fearing the LORD.
- Joshua 22:27Rather, let it be a witness between us and you and the generations to come, that we will worship the LORD in His presence with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and peace offerings.’ Then in the future, your descendants cannot say to ours, ‘You have no share in the LORD!’
- Psalms 2:6“I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain.”
- Psalms 9:4For You have upheld my just cause; You sit on Your throne judging righteously.
- Psalms 11:6On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.
- Psalms 21:7For the king trusts in the LORD; through the loving devotion of the Most High, he will not be shaken.
- Psalms 23:5You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
- Psalms 61:6Increase the days of the king’s life; may his years span many generations.
- Psalms 73:26My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
- Psalms 89:4‘I will establish your offspring forever and build up your throne for all generations.’” Selah
- Psalms 89:20I have found My servant David; with My sacred oil I have anointed him.
- Psalms 110:1The LORD said to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”
- Psalms 116:13I will lift the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD.
- Psalms 119:57The LORD is my portion; I have promised to keep Your words.
- Psalms 125:3For the scepter of the wicked will not rest upon the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous will not put forth their hands to injustice.
- Psalms 132:11The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.
- Psalms 132:17There I will make a horn grow for David; I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one.
- Psalms 142:5I cry to You, O LORD: “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
- Isaiah 42:1“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.
- Isaiah 53:12Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
- Jeremiah 10:16The Portion of Jacob is not like these, 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 will hope in Him.”
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