KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 16:1–2
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Psalms 16:1
1PRESERVE me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
1¶ Preserue me, O God: for in thee doe I put my trust.
Psalms 16:2
2O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;
2*O my soule, thou hast sayd vnto the LORD, Thou art my LORD: my goodnes extendeth not to thee:
- Psal. 50.10. Iob. 22.2. & 35.7.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 16:1
To keep safe from harm, loss, decay, or destruction; to protect, maintain, or save.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To place, set, lay, appoint, bring into a condition, or cause to be, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Something committed to a person’s care for use or management, and for which an account must be rendered. Confidence; a reliance or resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship or other sound principle of another person.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 16:2
Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience; also used as an auxiliary verb.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A title of authority applied here to God, Christ, or a male master or ruler, according to the verse.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Moral excellence, kindness, generosity, or that which is good.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Extends; stretches out, reaches, enlarges, or continues in scope.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 1
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Open the full verse study3Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
4Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
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Open the full verse study8Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
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Open the full verse study23O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
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Open the full verse study1BE merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
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Open the full verse study12For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
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Open the full verse study6The Lord preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
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Open the full verse study1O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
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Open the full verse study7Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
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Open the full verse study1O GOD, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
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Open the full verse study12O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
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Open the full verse study8He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
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Open the full verse study5Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:
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Open the full verse study20O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
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Open the full verse study10And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
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Open the full verse study1THEY that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
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Open the full verse study5Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
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Open the full verse study28For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
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Open the full verse study10Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
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Open the full verse study9But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
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Open the full verse study8He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
From verse 2
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Open the full verse study25Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
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Open the full verse study14But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.
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Open the full verse study2Can 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?
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Open the full verse study26He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
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Open the full verse study2I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
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Open the full verse study28And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.
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Open the full verse study8When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek.
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Open the full verse study1O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
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Open the full verse study13O Lord our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
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Open the full verse study35Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
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Open the full verse study9And 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.
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Open the full verse study5One 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.
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Open the full verse study10So 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.
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Open the full verse study7If 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.
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Open the full verse study9I 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.
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