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I say to the Lord,
    you are my Lord,
    you are my only good.
As for the holy ones who are in the land,
    they are noble,
    in whom is all my delight.
[a]They multiply their sorrows
    who court other gods.
Blood libations to them I will not pour out,
    nor will I take their names upon my lips.

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Footnotes

  1. 16:4 Take their names: to use the gods’ names in oaths and hence to affirm them as one’s own gods.

I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;(A)
    apart from you I have no good thing.”(B)
I say of the holy people(C) who are in the land,(D)
    “They are the noble ones in whom is all my delight.”
Those who run after other gods(E) will suffer(F) more and more.
    I will not pour out libations of blood to such gods
    or take up their names(G) on my lips.

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