Psalms 16:6

_THE LINES ARE FALLEN UNTO ME IN PLEASANT PLACES; YEA, I HAVE A GOODLY HERITAGE._ The lines are fallen unto me - an image from the cords with which they used to measure and allot lands. THE LINES ARE FALLEN UNTO ME - an image from the cords with which they used to measure and allot lands. Hence, it means my allotment (Amos 7:17; cf. on "fallen unto me," Joshua 16:5). It х_ NAAPLUW_ (H5307) _ LIY _ (H3807a)] means to be assigned unto (Numbers 34:2). IN PLEASANT (PLACES), х_ BANª`IMIYM_ (H5273)]. Boettcher denies that an adjective, not of local import, can, without addition, refer to place

6._The lines _(325) _have fallen to me. _The Psalmist confirms more fully what he had already said in the preceding verse with respect to his resting, with a composed and tranquil mind, in God alone; or rather, he so glories in God as nobly to despise all that the world imagines to be excellent and desirable without him. By magnifying God in such honorable and exalted strains, he gives us to understand that he does not desire any thing more as his portion and felicity. This doctrine may be profitable to us in many ways. It ought to draw us away not only from all the perverse inventions of superstition, but also from all the allurements of the flesh and of the world. Whenever, therefore, those things present themselves to us which would lead us away from resting in God alone, let us make use of this sentiment as an antidote against them, that we have sufficient cause for being contented,...

Verse Psalms 16:6. _THE LINES ARE FALLEN UNTO ME IN PLEASANT PLACES_] Here is an allusion to the ancient division of the land by lot among the Israelites, the breadth and length being ascertained by lines which were used in measuring. I have got a rich inheritance of immortal spirits; and I myself, as man, shall have a name above every name, and be raised to thy throne, on which I shall sit, and be admired in my saints to all eternity. _I HAVE A GOODLY HERITAGE._] A Church, an innumerable multitude of saints, partakers of the Divine nature, and filled with all the fulness of God. And these shall dwell with me in the heaven of heavens to all eternity. The old _Psalter_: - Ver. Psalms 16:5. Dominus pars hereditatis mee et calicis mei, c. T

THE LINES - The word used here refers to the “lines” employed in measuring and dividing land, Amos 7:17; 2 Samuel 8:2. Hence, the word comes to denote a portion of land that is “measured out” (or that is “surveyed off”) to anyone - his possession or property; and hence, the word refers to the condition in life. The meaning here is, that in running out such a survey, “his” inheritance had been fixed in a pleasant and desirable part of the land. ARE FALLEN UNTO ME - Referring to the appropriation of the different parts of the land by lot. The idea is, that the land was surveyed into distinct portions, and then that the part which fell to anyone was determined by lot. This was actually the case in distributing the land of Canaan,...

EXPOSITION THE sixteenth psalm is so far connected with the fifteenth that it is exclusively concerned, like the fifteenth, with the truly righteous man. It "depicts the true Israelite as rejoicing in God as the highest Good, and placing affiance in him in the face of Death and Hades" (Kay). The ascription of it to David in the title may well be acquiesced in. It has been called "a golden psalm," and the word "Michtam" in the title has been understood in this sense; but that is more probably a musical term, like "Mizmor," "_Maschil_,"_ _"Shiggaion," etc. It is "full of the spirit of David," and remarkably evangelical in tone; its Messianic character is attested by the Apostle Peter (Acts 2:25; Acts 13:35). It seems to divide itself only into two strophes—one extending fro

THE LINES ARE FALLEN UNTO ME IN PLEASANT [PLACES],.... The allusion is to the measuring of land by lines, and appropriating each part to the proper owners; and lines design the land that is measured out by them, and here the church and people of God, the chosen ones who are given to Christ, as his portion and inheritance; and the sense is, that Christ's portion lies among or in pleasant persons; such as were so to him, as he saw them in his Father's purposes and decrees; and as they are clothed in his righteousness, and washed in his blood; and as they are adorned with the graces of his Spirit; and as they will be as a bride adorned for him in the New Jerusalem state, for rather persons than places are here meant: though as the bounds of the saints' habitations are set, and they are known to Christ, so they were pleasant to him, and he took delight and rejoiced in the very spots of groun...

Psalms 16:1. _Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust._ Ah, brethren! When we think of our daily dangers, and when we remember the sinfulness of our nature, this petition may well be our frequent prayer: «Preserve me, O God;» and this may well be our plea, as well as the psalmist's: «for in thee do I put my trust.» We do trust in the name of the Lord, for we can never expect to be preserved except by his protecting grace. Psalms 16:2. _O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee; but to, the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight._ «My God, I would fain prove my gratitude to thee if I could; but what can I do for One so great as thou art? Thou art infinitely above me; thou

A REVELATION OF THE CHRIST OF GOD (16-24) Psalms 16 _ 1. The obedient One (Psalms 16:1)_ 2. The path He went (Psalms 16:4) 3. Death and resurrection (Psalms 16:9) In the nine Psalms which compose this section Christ is marvellously revealed. We notice an interesting progress in the messianic message of this section, culminating in the manifestation of the King, the Lord of Glory in Psalms 24:1. In the Sixteenth Psalm we behold Christ in His obedience on earth. See also Paul's testimony in...

XVI. GOD, THE SUPREME GOOD. Psalms 16:1. The Psalmist's devotion to God and His saints. Psalms 16:2_ b_, PSALMS 16:3. The text is corrupt; RV requires a slight emendation or we may supply, I have said, from Psalms 16:2. And I have said of the holy ones that are in the land: they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight. But the LXX had a very different text. Some ancient authorities omit Psalms 16:2_ b_ or read, because thou hast no need of my goods. In LXX 3 reads, For the holy ones that are in the earth, he hath made all

LINES. the land thus allotted by it....