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Psalm 16

Psa. 16:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But to the saints
qadowsh (Hebrew #6918)
from 6942; sacred (ceremonially or morally); (as noun) God (by eminence), an angel, a saint, a sanctuary
KJV usage: holy (One), saint.
Pronounce: kaw-doshe'
Origin: or qadosh {kaw-doshe'}
that
hem (Hebrew #1992)
masculine plural from 1981; they (only used when emphatic)
KJV usage: it, like, X (how, so) many (soever, more as) they (be), (the) same, X so, X such, their, them, these, they, those, which, who, whom, withal, ye.
Pronounce: haym
Origin: or (prolonged) hemmah {haym'-maw}
are in the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
, and to the excellent
'addiyr (Hebrew #117)
wide or (generally) large; figuratively, powerful
KJV usage: excellent, famous, gallant, glorious, goodly, lordly, mighty(- ier one), noble, principal, worthy.
Pronounce: ad-deer'
Origin: from 142
i, in whom is all my delight
chephets (Hebrew #2656)
pleasure; hence (abstractly) desire; concretely, a valuable thing; hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind)
KJV usage: acceptable, delight(-some), desire, things desired, matter, pleasant(-ure), purpose, willingly.
Pronounce: khay'-fets
Origin: from 2654
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But.
the saints.
the excellent.
Prov. 12:26• 26The righteous guideth his neighbour;{HR}But the way of the wicked misleadeth them. (Prov. 12:26)
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Song of Sol. 4:1‑7:13• 1Behold, thou [art] fair, my love; behold, thou [art] fair;{HR}Thine eyes [are] doves behind thy veil;{HR}Thy hair [is] as a flock of goats{HR}That appears on the side of mount Gilead.
2Thy teeth [are] like a flock of shorn [ewes]{HR}Which go up from the washing,{HR}Which have all borne twins,{HR}And none bereaved among them.
3Thy lips [are] like a thread of scarlet,{HR}And thy speech comely.{HR}As a piece of a pomegranate [are] thy temples{HR}Behind thy veil.
4Thy neck [is] like the tower of David{HR}Built for an armoury:{HR}A thousand bucklers hang thereon,{HR}All shields of mighty men.
5Thy two breasts [are] like two fawns, twins of a gazelle,{HR}Which feed among the lilies.
6Until the day dawn and the shadows flee away.{HR}I will get me to the mountain of myrrh,{HR}And to the hill of frankincense.
7Thou [art] all fair, my love and [there is] no spot in thee.
8With me from Lebanon, spouse, with me from Lebanon;{HR}Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon,{HR}From the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
9Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister spouse;{HR}Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes,{HR}With one chain of thy neck.
10How fair is thy love, my sister spouse!{HR}How much better is thy love than wine,{HR}And the fragrance of thine ointment than all spices!
11Thy lips, spouse, drop honeycomb;{HR}Honey and milk [are] under thy tongue;{HR}And the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
12A garden shut up is my sister spouse,{HR}A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
13Thy shoots [are] an orchard of pomegranates with precious fruits{HR}Henna with spikenard plants;
14spikenard and saffron;{HR}Calamus and cinnamon with all trees of frankincense;{HR}Myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:
15A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters,{HR}Which stream from Lebanon.
16Awake, north wind, and come, south;{HR}Blow upon my garden [that] the spices thereof may flow forth.{HR}Let my beloved come into his garden{HR}And eat his precious fruits.
1I am come into my garden, my sister spouse;{HR}I have gathered my myrrh with my spice;{HR}I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;{HR}I have drunk my wine with my milk.{HR}Eat, O friends; drink, yea drink abundantly, beloved one.
2I was asleep, but my heart waked.{HR}The voice of my beloved that knocketh [saying],{HR}Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, mine undefiled;{HR}For my head is filled with dew,{HR}My locks with the drops of the night.
3I have put off my coat: how shall I put it on?{HR}I have washed my feet: how shall I defile them?
4My beloved put in his hand by the hole [of the door];{HR}And my bowels yearned for him.
5I rose to open for my beloved,{HR}And my hands dropped with myrrh,{HR}And my fingers with liquid myrrh.
6I opened to my beloved;{HR}But my beloved had turned away—was gone.{HR}My soul went forth when he spoke:{HR}I sought him, but I found him not;{HR}I called him, but he gave me no answer.
7The watchmen that go about the city found me,{HR}They smote me, they wounded me;{HR}The keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
8I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem,{HR}If ye find my beloved,{HR}That ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
9What is thy beloved more than [another] beloved,{HR}Thou fairest among women?{HR}What is thy beloved more than [another] beloved,{HR}That thou dost so charge us?
10My beloved [is] white and ruddy,{HR}The chiefest among ten thousand.
11His head [is] finest gold;{HR}His locks [are] flowing, black as the raven;
12His eyes [are] like doves by the water brooks,{HR}Washed with milk, fitly set;
13His cheeks [are] as a bed of spices, banks of sweet herbs;{HR}His lips, lilies dropping liquid myrrh;
14His hands, gold rings set with beryl;{HR}His body [is] ivory work overlaid (with) sapphires;
15His legs, pillars of marble, set on sockets of fine gold;{HR}His aspect, as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars;
16His mouth [is] most sweet;{HR}Yea he [is] altogether lovely.{HR}This [is] my beloved, yea this [is] my friend,{HR}O daughters of Jerusalem.
1Whither is thy beloved gone,{HR}Thou fairest among women?{HR}Whither hath thy beloved turned,{HR}And we will seek him with thee?
2My beloved is gone down to his garden,{HR}To the beds of spice,{HR}To feed in the gardens and to gather lilies.
3I [am] my beloved's, and my beloved [is] mine:{HR}He feedeth [his] flock among the lilies.
4Thou [art] fair, my love, as Tirzah,{HR}Comely as Jerusalem,{HR}Terrible as bannered [hosts].
5Turn away thine eyes from me,{HR}For they overcome me,{HR}Thy hair [is] as a flock of goats{HR}On the slopes of Gilead.
6Thy teeth [are] like a flock of ewes{HR}Which go up from the washing,{HR}Which have all borne twins,{HR}And none [is] bereaved among them.
7As a piece of a pomegranate [are] thy temples{HR}Behind thy veil.
8There are threescore queens and fourscore concubines,{HR}And virgins without number.
9My dove, mine undefiled, is one;{HR}She [is] the only one of her mother,{HR}She [is] the choice one of her that bare her.{HR}The daughters saw her and called her blessed;{HR}The queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
10Who [is] she [that] looketh forth as the dawn,{HR}Fair as the moon,{HR}Clear as the sun,{HR}Terrible as bannered [hosts]?
11I went down into the garden of nuts,{HR}To see the verdure of the valley,{HR}To see whether the vine budded—{HR}The pomegranates blossomed.
12Before I was aware,{HR}My soul set me [in] the chariots of my willing people.
13Return, return, O Shulamite;
1How beautiful are thy steps in sandals,{HR}Ο prince's daughter!{HR}The joints of thy thighs like jewels,{HR}Work of the hands of a skilful artist.
2Thy navel [is] a round goblet, wanting not mixture;{HR}Thy belly, a heap of wheat set about with lilies;
3Thy two breasts are two fawns, twins of a gazelle;
4Thy neck as a tower of ivory;{HR}Thine eyes, the pool in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim;{HR}Thy nose as the tower of Lebanon looking toward Damascus;
5Thy head upon thee as Carmel,{HR}And the locks of thy head as purple—{HR}The king held captive in the tresses.
6How fair and how pleasant [art] thou, love, in delights!
7This thy stature [is] as a palm-tree,{HR}And thy breasts [grape-] clusters.
8I said, I will go up the palm-tree,{HR}I will take hold of the branches thereof;{HR}And thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine,{HR}And the smell of thy nose as apples;
9And the roof of thy mouth as the best wine{HR}Goeth down aright for my beloved,{HR}Gliding over the lips of those asleep.
10I am my beloved's, and his desire [is] toward me.
11Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field,{HR}Let us lodge in the villages;
12Let us get up early to the vineyards,{HR}Let us see if the vine hath budded,{HR}The blossoms appear, the pomegranates bloom:{HR}There will I give thee my loves.
13The mandrakes yield fragrance;{HR}And at our doors [are] all choice fruits:{HR}New and old I have laid them up for thee, my beloved.
(Song of Sol. 4:1‑7:13)
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Mal. 3:17• 17And they shall be mine, saith Jehovah of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. (Mal. 3:17)
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Psa. 119:63• 63A companion [am] I to all who fear thee,{HR}And to those who keep thy precepts. (Psa. 119:63)
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Prov. 8:31• 31Rejoicing in the habitable world of his earth,{HR}And my delights [were] with the sons of men. (Prov. 8:31)
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Prov. 13:20• 20He that walketh with wise [men] becometh wise;{HR}But a companion of the foolish will be destroyed. (Prov. 13:20)
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Song of Sol. 7:10• 10I am my beloved's, and his desire [is] toward me. (Song of Sol. 7:10)
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Isa. 62:4• 4Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken, neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah; for Jehovah delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. (Isa. 62:4)
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Eph. 5:25‑27• 25Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for it,
26that he might sanctify it, having cleansed [it] by the washing of water in [the] word,
27that he might himself present to himself the assembly glorious, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it should be holy and blameless.
(Eph. 5:25‑27)
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1 John 3:14‑17• 14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not the brother abideth in death.
15Every one that hateth his brother is a murderer; and ye know that no murderer hath life eternal abiding in him.
16Herein we know love, because he laid down his life for us; and we ought for the brethren to lay down our lives.
17But whoso may have the world's means of living, and behold his brother having need, and shut up his bowels from him, how abideth the love of God in him?
(1 John 3:14‑17)
 He becomes the associate of the godly remnant―the excellent of the earth—in whom He finds His delight. (Psalm 16 by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Tod the saintse that are on the earth, and to the excellent thou hast said, In them is all my delight.

JND Translation Notes

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The preposition is the same as before "Jehovah" in ver. 2. but "to" before "thee," at the end of ver. 2, is different.
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Kadoshim. plural of Kadosh, which is used of God in Ps. 22.3; 71.22; 78.41; 89.18; 99.3,5; Hab. 1.12, etc., and is translated "holy" -- "holy one." It is used of "Aaron," Ps. 106.16.

W. Kelly Translation

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Unto the saints which are upon the earth,{HR}[Even] them, and the excellent,{HR}All my delight [is] in them.