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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Psalms 16:3

but to the saints that are in the earth and to the excellent, in whom is all My delight, that is, God is the Speaker's Lord for the holy ones who are on the earth and the excellent in the sight of God. He is in close relationship with these saints, with those who place their trust in the God of their salvation; He has all His delight in such truly excellent people, and He is therefore anxious to have them all become partakers of this delight.

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See also Psalms 16:3 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BUT TO THE SAINTS THAT ARE IN THE EARTH - This verse also has been very variously rendered. Our translators seem to have understood it, in connection with the previous verse, as meaning that his “good...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    A REVELATION OF THE CHRIST OF GOD (16-24) Psalms 16 _ 1. The obedient One (Psalms 16:1)_ 2. The path He went (Psalms 16:4) 3. Death and resurrection ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    XVI. GOD, THE SUPREME GOOD. Psalms 16:1. The Psalmist's devotion to God and His saints. Psalms 16:2_ b_, PSALMS 16:3. The text is corrupt; RV requires a slight emendation or we may supply, I have sai...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BUT TO. As for. SAINTS. holy (or separated) ones. See note on Exodus 3:5. IN THE EARTH. in His own Land. TO. Omit "to". IN WHOM. in them. MY: or, His: i.e. Jehovah _'_ s. So the Septuagint....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Psalmist's society....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A difficult verse, the text of which appears to be corrupt. (1) The best rendering is that of R.V. It is true that it can only be wrung from the Massoretic text by some violence, but an easy emendati...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 16 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE An Ideal Israelite's Triumph over Death. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 16:1-4, Prayer for Preservation: offered in Dependence on Jehovah, Discernment of his Doings, and Det...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _BUT TO THE SAINTS THAT ARE IN THE EARTH, AND TO THE EXCELLENT, IN WHOM IS ALL MY DELIGHT._ But to the saints are in the earth - in contrast to the Most High, who is in the heaven of heavens. Christ...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    16:3 To (d-1) The preposition is the same as before 'Jehovah' in ver. 2. but 'to' before 'thee,' at the end of ver. 2, is different. saints (e-3) _ Kadoshim_ . plural of _ Kadosh_ , which is used of...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The Ps. is the confident and joyous prayer of one whose highest satisfaction is in God and in good men (Psalms 16:2), who renounces all the ways of idolatry (Psalms 16:4), and who finds in God not onl...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    RV 'As for the saints that are in the earth, They are the excellent in whom is all my delight.' 4. _That_ HASTEN, etc.] RV 'that exchange _the Lord_ for another _god'_. DRINK OFFERINGS OF BLOOD] to b...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לִ֭ קְדֹושִׁים אֲשֶׁר ־בָּ † אָ֣רֶץ הֵ֑מָּה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 16:1 THE progress of thought in this psalm is striking. The singer is first a bold confessor in the face of idolatry and apostasy (Psalms 16:1). Then the inward sweetness of his faith fills his...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE CITIZEN OF ZION AND HIS INHERITANCE Psalms 15:1; Psalms 16:1 The first of these psalms was probably composed to celebrate the bringing of the Ark to Mount Zion, 1 Samuel 6:20. It describes the ch...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This is a song of satisfaction. The singer is not one who is unfamiliar with peril. The opening sentence is a sigh, revealing the consciousness of peril. Toward the close, the shadows of She01 and the...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Fire. I have experienced all sorts of misery. (Calmet) --- Iniquity. Hebrew, "Thou hast not found; I have thought." But the same word without points, zamothi, (Haydock) has the sense given by the Sept...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    This is a most precious portion, in which we find Christ claiming the privilege of covenant relation, and, at the same time, disclaiming all pretensions to merit, from any supposed good Jehovah could...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _HIS DELIGHTS ARE WITH THE SONS OF MEN_ ‘All my delight is upon the saints, that are in the earth: and upon such as ercel in virtue.’ Psalms 16:3 (Prayer Book Version) The history of mankind, whethe...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    3._Unto the saints who are on the earth. _Almost all are agreed in understanding this place, as if David, after the sentence which we have just now been considering, had added, The only way of serving...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    With Psalms 16 we begin a very important series of psalms those in which the connection of Christ Himself with the remnant is brought before us by the divine Spirit. In Psalms 16, Christ takes formall...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    [BUT] TO THE SAINTS THAT [ARE] IN THE EARTH,.... Who are sanctified or set apart by God the Father in election; whose sins are expiated by the blood of Christ in redemption, and who are sanctified or...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Psalms 16:3 [But] to the saints that [are] in the earth, and [to] the excellent, in whom [is] all my delight. Ver. 3. _But to the saints_] The family of faith were, by a specialty, the object of Davi...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _O my soul, thou hast said_, &c. The words, _O my soul_, not being in the original, Houbigant translates the clause, _I have said unto the Lord_ I have oftentimes avowed and professed it, and still pe...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BUT, i.e. but my goodness extendeth, which is easily understood out of the former verse; from which also there may be fetched another supplement; _O my soul, thou hast said, to the saints_, &c. TO THE...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 16:3 saints H6918 who H1992 earth H776 excellent H117 delight H2656 But - Galatians 6:10;...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    HE HAS SAID TO YHWH, ‘YOU ARE MY LORD' (2-4). ‘You have said to YHWH, You are my Lord, I have no good beyond (apart from) you. As for the saints (holy ones) who are in the earth, They are the exce...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 16:3 The history of mankind, whether secular or religious, resolves itself ultimately into the history of a few individuals. God carries out His work of continuous redemption by the energy of t...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 16:1. _Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust._ Notice how the psalmist urges the prevailing plea of faith. A trusted God will be a preserving God. If thou, believer, canst truly sa...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 16:1. _Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust._ Ah, brethren! When we think of our daily dangers, and when we remember the sinfulness of our nature, this petition may well be our fr...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Meditation on the goodness of God. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Those who commit themselves to God's care and submit themselves to God's guidance will find a blessed portion in Him....

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    REFLECTIONS. This is called by the Jews the _Michtam_ or golden psalm, which David composed during his exile, or while he reigned in Hebron. It opens with a prayer that God would preserve him; for he...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _All my delight is upon the saints that are in the earth, and upon such as excel in virtue (P._.V_._). DIVINE LOVE FOR THE SAINTS OF GOD On All Saints’ Day our mind seems almost to sink beneath the g...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Preserve me, O God: for in Thee do I put my trust._ FAITH IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD This term suggests that the Psalm is one of strongly marked, incisive thought. It is a Psalm doubly notable-- 1. Bec...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 16:1. When the faithful sing Psalms 16:1, they entrust themselves to the Lord. They experience confidence and contentment in his care. The psa

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 16:3 THE SAINTS are those who have embraced their privilege as God’s people. Since God has declared them holy, they live in a holy way. ⇐

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION “The first clause contains in germ the thought of the entire psalm, namely, that the pious man has always protection with God against all his enemies. From this assurance arises the cry o...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE sixteenth psalm is so far connected with the fifteenth that it is exclusively concerned, like the fifteenth, with the truly righteous man. It "depicts the true Israelite as rejoicing in...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Let's turn now to Psalms 16:1-11. The sixteenth psalm is called a Michtam of David. A Michtam is actually a meditation or a prayer. And there are about five or six psalms that are designated as Michta...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 John 3:14; 2 Chronicles 6:41; Acts 9:13; Ephesians 1:1; Ephes

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    But — I bear a singular respect and love to all saints, for thy sake, whose friends and servants they are, and whose image they bear. This more properly agrees to David, than to Christ, whose goodness...

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