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Psalms 16:1-11

Psalms 16:1-11

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

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 (; ). It seems to divide itself only into two strophes—one extending from to the end of , and the other from to the conclusion.

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