Psalm 16

LOrd keep and save me, for on thee
alone mine heart it stai'd.
My soul, thou hast said to the Lord,
thou art my God, mine aid.
My goodness reacheth not to thee,
but to the Saints that dwell
On earth, my whole delight is set
on them that do excell.

Their sorrows shall be multipli'd,
that vex themselves in vain,
And to make haste to other Gods
in blind zeal take great pain.
Their drink-offeings of blood, which God
abhors, I will not bring,
Nor in my lips take up the name
of that accursed thing.

The Lord the part and portion is
of mine inheritance,
And of my cap, thou doest my lot
maintain, and it advance.
The lines that did set out my part
in pleasant places fell,
The heritage assign'd to me
doth in all things excell.

Gods counsel mov'd me to this choice,
and not mine own sore-sight,
Him will I bless, he makes my reins
to teach me every night.
I set the Lord before me still,
he is my strength and stay;
Because he is at my right hand,
my state shall not decay.

Therefore my heart within was glad,
my tongue my joys exprest,
My flesh, when I ly down in grave,
shall in assurance rest;
Because thou wilt not alwayes leave
my soul in grave to be,
Nor wilt permit thine Holy One
corruption to see.

Thou wilt shew me the path of life;
for in thy presence is
Fulness of joy, at thy right hand
is everlasting bliss,