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Oh my soul you have said[a] to Yahweh, “You are my Lord.
I have no good apart from you.”
With regard to the saints who are in the land,
they are the noble ones in whom is all my desire.
Those who hurry after[b] another god increase their sorrows.
I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood,
nor take up their names on my lips.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 16:2 Reading a feminine singular verb; some Hebrew manuscripts and translations read “I said”
  2. Psalm 16:4 Or “they who acquire”