Psalms 16:3

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 be understood perhaps not literally, but in the sense of cruel and impure sacrifices. Their names] the names of the idols which are thus worshipped.

5, 6. There are two figures here, one contained in the words portion, lot, lines, heritage, suggested by the division of the land of Canaan among the tribes, and another contained in the word cup, which denotes the experiences of the Psalmist's life. In Numbers 18:20; God is the only portion of the Levites, who received no earthly territory. The writer here claims the same goodly heritage.