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Psalm 16

Psa. 16:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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O my soul, thou hast said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
unto the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, Thou art my Lord
'Adonay (Hebrew #136)
the Lord (used as a proper name of God only)
KJV usage: (my) Lord.
Pronounce: ad-o-noy'
Origin: am emphatic form of 113
: myh goodness
towb (Hebrew #2896)
good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well)
KJV usage: beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, X fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, X most, pleasant, + pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well ((-favoured)).
Pronounce: tobe
Origin: from 2895
extendeth not to thee;
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Job 35:7‑8• 7If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
 8Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man. (Job 35:7‑8)

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thou hast.
Psa. 8:1• 1<<To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.>> O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. (Psa. 8:1)
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Psa. 27:8• 8When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek. (Psa. 27:8)
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Psa. 31:14• 14But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God. (Psa. 31:14)
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Psa. 89:26• 26He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. (Psa. 89:26)
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Psa. 91:2• 2I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. (Psa. 91:2)
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Isa. 26:13• 13O Lord our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name. (Isa. 26:13)
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Isa. 44:5• 5One shall say, I am the Lord's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel. (Isa. 44:5)
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Zech. 13:9• 9And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God. (Zech. 13:9)
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John 20:28• 28And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. (John 20:28)
my goodness.
Psa. 50:9‑10• 9I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
 10For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. (Psa. 50:9‑10)
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Job 22:2‑3• 2Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
 3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect? (Job 22:2‑3)
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Job 35:7‑8• 7If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
 8Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man. (Job 35:7‑8)
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Luke 17:10• 10So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do. (Luke 17:10)
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Rom. 11:35• 35Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? (Rom. 11:35)
• That our goodness does not actually reach God it might seem almost absurd to affirm; but when it is applied to Christ as man, who was absolutely perfect, it affords us an apprehension of the nature of this goodness, a principle which we can apply to ourselves, and which puts us in our place. It is man's perfection towards God—the new path of which Christ is the perfection and example in the earth. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 12-15” by J.N. Darby)
• The expression, My goodness extendeth not to thee, would not suit the divine manifestation of goodness on the earth. But taking His place entirely as a man here, the Lord shows us the true place of man living to God. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 12-15” by J.N. Darby)
• The Lord takes the place we are considering when He says to the young man, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is God. If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. Thus far it went outwardly well with the young ruler, but there was more than this to characterize this life where divine life was, in a world of sin and sinners, in its path towards the place of the fullness of joy—what had been shown in Abraham and in the saints of God, in the Davids and the prophets. The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance. Having the Lord Himself as that which governed and led the heart, Go sell what thou hast and give to the poor, and come, follow me. But the Lord was not, at any rate then, the portion of his inheritance. Only one knows not what may have become afterward his state through grace. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 12-15” by J.N. Darby)
• He had said to Jehovah, “Thou art my Lord;” that is, I am subservient to Thee. He had taken a place, while never ceasing to be God, and which Godhead alone could fulfill the conditions of, outside Godhead; but in which as man to satisfy God, to glorify God in an earth of apostasy and sin. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 12-15” by J.N. Darby)
• He can say to Jehovah, “Thou art my Lord.” His goodness―His perfect obedience as the Servant—was not in order to give Him a place before God, or in order to secure benefits for Himself, but for the benefit of the saints. He became a Servant to serve others in love. (“Psalms 16” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thou my soul hast said to Jehovah, Thou art the Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;—