Psalms 16:11

There are. — The italics in the Authorised Version spoil the triplet: —

“Thou wilt show me the path of life,
In thy presence fulness and joy,
At thy right hand pleasures for evermore.”

It is another image for the same thought which dominates the psalm — the thought of the happiness of being with God. The fair heritage, the serene happiness, the enduring pleasure always to be found at God’s right hand, are all different modes of expressing the same sense of complete satisfaction and peace given by a deep religious trust touched, ever so faintly, by a ray of a larger hope beginning to triumph over death itself.