the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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Psalms 16:11
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You will show me the way of life, granting me the joy of your presence and the pleasures of living with you forever.
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; in thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
You will show me the path of life: In your presence is fullness of joy; In your right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
You will teach me how to live a holy life. Being with you will fill me with joy; at your right hand I will find pleasure forever.
You lead me in the path of life; I experience absolute joy in your presence; you always give me sheer delight.
Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence [is] fullness of joy; at thy right hand [are] pleasures for evermore.
You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.
You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.
You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
Thou hast maad knowun to me the weies of lijf; thou schalt fille me of gladnesse with thi cheer; delityngis ben in thi riythalf `til in to the ende.
You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand.
You have shown me the path to life, and you make me glad by being near to me. Sitting at your right side, I will always be joyful.
Thou wilt show me the path of life: In thy presence is fulness of joy; In thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
You will make clear to me the way of life; where you are joy is complete; in your right hand there are pleasures for ever and ever.
You make me know the path of life; in your presence is unbounded joy, in your right hand eternal delight.
Thou wilt make known to me the path of life: thy countenance is fulness of joy; at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.
You will teach me the right way to live. Just being with you will bring complete happiness. Being at your right side will make me happy forever.
Thou makest me to know the path of life; {P}
Thou wilt shewe me the path of life: in thy presence is fulnesse of ioy, at thy right hand there are pleasures for euermore.
You will show me the way of life. Being with You is to be full of joy. In Your right hand there is happiness forever.
You show me the path of life. In your presence there is fullness of joy; in your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is the fulnesse of ioy: and at thy right hand there are pleasures for euermore.
Thou wilt show me the path of life, and I shall be filled with the joy of thy countenance, with the pleasure of victory of thy right hand.
You will show me the path that leads to life; your presence fills me with joy and brings me pleasure forever.
Thou wilt cause me to know, the path of life, - Fulness of joys before thee, Pleasures at thy right hand evermore.
You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy, at Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore. Acts 2:25-28, 31.">[fn]
Thou dost show me the path of life; in thy presence there is fulness of joy, in thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.
Thou wylt cause me to knowe the path of lyfe: in thy presence is the fulnesse of ioy, and at thy right hand there be pleasures for euermore.
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou wilt fill me with joy with thy countenance: at thy right hand there are delights for ever.
You reveal the path of life to me;in your presence is abundant joy;at your right hand are eternal pleasures.
You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.
You will make known to me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. At your right hand are pleasures forever.
You will make Me know the way of life. In Your presence is fullness of joys; at Your right hand are pleasures forever.
Thou causest me to know the path of life; Fulness of joys [is] with Thy presence, Pleasant things by Thy right hand for ever!
For why? thou shalt not leaue my soule in hell, nether shalt thou suffre thy saynte to se corrupcion. Thou hast shewed me the wayes off life: thou shalt make me full of ioye wt thy countenaunce. At thy right hande there is pleasure and ioye for euermore.
Now you've got my feet on the life path, all radiant from the shining of your face. Ever since you took my hand, I'm on the right way.
You will make known to me the way of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.
You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.
You will make known to me the path of life;In Your presence is fullness of joy;In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
path: Psalms 21:4, Proverbs 2:19, Proverbs 4:18, Proverbs 5:6, Proverbs 12:28, Isaiah 2:3, Matthew 7:14, Romans 8:11, 1 Peter 1:21
in thy: Psalms 17:15, Psalms 21:5, Psalms 21:6, Matthew 5:8, Acts 2:28, 1 Corinthians 13:12, 2 Corinthians 4:17, Ephesians 3:19, 1 John 3:2, Jude 1:24, Revelation 7:15-17, Revelation 22:5
at thy: Mark 16:19, Acts 7:56, 1 Peter 3:22
pleasures: Psalms 36:8, Matthew 25:33, Matthew 25:46
Reciprocal: Leviticus 22:3 - from my Numbers 6:20 - and after 1 Chronicles 16:27 - Glory Job 19:26 - in my flesh Job 33:26 - and he shall Psalms 23:6 - and I Psalms 30:5 - in his Psalms 31:19 - laid up Psalms 37:18 - their Psalms 41:12 - settest Psalms 45:8 - whereby Psalms 73:25 - Whom Psalms 91:16 - show Psalms 133:3 - even life Psalms 140:13 - the upright Proverbs 8:21 - fill Proverbs 15:24 - way Isaiah 61:7 - everlasting Matthew 17:4 - it is Matthew 25:21 - enter John 5:39 - ye think Romans 15:29 - General 1 Corinthians 15:4 - according 2 Corinthians 5:8 - present Philippians 1:23 - far Philippians 3:20 - our Colossians 3:1 - seek 1 Thessalonians 4:17 - and so 2 Thessalonians 1:9 - from the presence 2 Thessalonians 2:14 - to Revelation 22:3 - but
Cross-References
And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the Lord .
Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.
And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus .
And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying, His name is John. And they marvelled all.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thou wilt show me the path of life,.... Not the way of life and salvation for lost sinners, which is Christ himself; but the resurrection of the dead, which is a passing from death to life; and was shown to Christ, not doctrinally, or by illuminating his mind, and leading him into the doctrine of it, for so he himself has brought it to light by the Gospel; practically and experimentally, by raising him the dead, or by causing him to pass from death to life; and he was the first to whom the path of life was shown in this sense, or the that who ever trod in it, and so has led the way for others: hence he is called the that fruits of them that slept, the firstborn and first begotten from the dead; for though others were raised before, yet not to an immortal life, never to die more, as he was; now the view, the faith, and hope of this, of not being left in the grave so long as to see corruption, and of being raised from the dead to an immortal life, caused joy and gladness in Christ, at the time of his sufferings and death, as well as what follows;
in thy presence [is] fulness of joy: Christ, being raised from the dead, ascended to heaven, and was received up into glory into his Father's presence, and is glorified with his own self, with his glorious presence, for which he prayed, John 17:5; and which fills his human nature with fulness of joy, with a joy unspeakable and full of glory; see Acts 2:28; and as it is with the head it will be with the members in some measure; now the presence of God puts more joy and gladness into them than anything else can do; but as yet their joy is not full; but it will be when they shall enter into the joy of their Lord, into the presence of God in the other world then everlasting joy will be upon their heads;
at thy right hand [there are] pleasures for evermore; Christ being entered into heaven is set down at the right hand of God in human nature, an honour which is not conferred on any of the angels, Hebrews 1:13; where the man Christ Jesus is infinitely delighted with the presence of God, the never fading joys of heaven, the company of angels and glorified saints; here he sits and sees of the travail of his soul; he prolongs his days and sees his seed, souls called by grace, and brought to glory one after another, until they are all brought in, in whom is all his delight; and which was the joy set before him at the time of his sufferings and death: or the words may be rendered "in thy right are pleasant things for ever" y, and may design those gifts and graces, which Christ, being exalted at the right hand of God, received from thence and gives to men, for the use and service, of his church and people, in the several successive ages of time; and so Aben Ezra takes the words to be an allusion to a man's giving pleasant gifts to his friend with his right hand.
y נעימות בימינך נצח "amoenorum quae sunt in dextera tua perpetuo", Cocceius; "delectationes in dextera tua usque in seculum", Musculas.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Thou wilt show me the path of life - In this connection this means that though he was to die - to descend to the regions of the dead, and to lie down in the dark grave - yet there WAS a path again to the living world, and that that path would be pointed out to him by God. In other words, he would not be suffered to remain among the dead, or to wander away forever with those who were in the under world, but he would be brought back: to the living world. This is language which, in this connection, could be founded only on a belief of the resurrection of the dead. The word “life” here does not necessarily refer to heaven - to eternal life - though the connection shows that this is the ultimate idea. It is life in contradistinction from the condition of the dead. The highest form of life is that which is found in heaven, at the right hand of God; and the connection shows it was that on which the eye of the psalmist was fixed.
In thy presence - literally, “with thy face.” Before thy face; or, as the sense is correctly expressed in our version, “in thy presence.” The reference is to God’s presence in heaven, or where he is supposed to dwell. This is shown by the additional statement that the joy mentioned was to be found at his “right hand” - an expression which properly refers to heaven. It is not merely a return to earth which is anticipated; it is an exaltation to heaven.
Is fulness of joy - Not partial joy; not imperfect joy; not joy intermingled with pain and sorrow; not joy which, though in itself real, does not satisfy the desires of the soul, as is the case with much of the happiness which we experience in this life - but joy, full, satisfying, unalloyed, unclouded, unmingled with anything that would diminish its fulness or its brightness; joy that will not be diminished, as all earthly joys must be, by the feeling that it must soon come to an end.
At thy right hand - The right hand is the place of honor (Notes, Psalms 16:8). Compare Mark 16:19; Hebrews 1:3; Acts 7:56; and it here refers to the place which the saints will occupy in heaven. This language could have been used only by one who believed in the doctrine of the resurrection and of the future state. As applicable to the author of the psalm, it implies that he had a firm belief in the resurrection of the dead, and a confident hope of happiness hereafter; as applicable to the Messiah, it denotes that he would be raised up to exalted honor in heaven; as applicable to believers now, it expresses their firm and assured faith that eternal happiness and exalted honor await them in the future world.
There are pleasures for evermore - Happiness that will be eternal. It is not enjoyment such as we have on earth, which we feel is soon to terminate; it is joy which can have no end. Here, in respect to any felicity which we enjoy, we cannot but feel that it is soon to cease. No matter how secure the sources of our joy may seem to be, we know that happiness here cannot last long, for life cannot long continue; and even though life should be lengthened out for many years, we have no certainty that our happiness will be commensurate even with our existence on earth. The dearest friend that we have may soon leave us to return no more; health, the source of so many comforts, and essential to the enjoyment of any comfort here, may soon fail; property, however firmly it may be secured, may “take to itself wings and fly away.” Soon, at any rate, if these things do not leave us, we shall leave them; and in respect to happiness from them, we shall be as though they had not been. Not so will it be at the right hand of God. Happiness there, whatever may be its nature, will be eternal. Losses, disappointment, bereavement, sickness, can never occur there; nor can the anticipation of death, though at the most distant period, and after countless million of ages, ever mar our joys. How different in all these things will heaven be from earth! How desirable to leave the earth, and to enter on those eternal joys!
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 16:11. Thou wilt show me the path of life — I first shall find the way out of the regions of death, to die no more. Thus Christ was the first fruits of them that slept. Several had before risen from the dead, but they died again. Jesus rose from the dead, and is alive for evermore. Jesus Christ's resurrection from the dead was the first entrance out of the grave to eternal life or lives, חיים chaiyim, for the word is in the plural, and with great propriety too, as this resurrection implies the life of the body, and the life of the rational soul also.
In thy presence — פניך paneycha, thy faces. Every holy soul has, throughout eternity, the beatific vision, i.e., "it sees God as he is," because it is like him; 1 John 3:2. It drinks in beatification from the presence of the Eternal TRINITY.
Thy right hand — The place of honour and dignity; repeatedly used in this sense in the Scriptures.
Pleasures for evermore. — נצח netzach, onwardly; perpetually, continually, well expressed by our translation, ever and more; an eternal progression. Think of duration in the most extended and unlimited manner, and there is still more; more to be suffered in hell, and more to be enjoyed in heaven. Great God! grant that my readers may have this beatific sight; this eternal progression in unadulterated, unchangeable, and unlimited happiness! Hear this prayer for His sake, who found out the path of life, and who by his blood purchased an entrance into the holiest! Amen and Amen.
For the application of the whole Psalm to David, see the analysis at the end, which is a little altered from David's Harp Strung and Tuned.
The remains of this Psalm in the old Psalter are worthy to be inserted: -
Ver. Psalms 16:7. Benedicam Dominum qui tribuit michi intellectum, c.
Trans. I sal blis the Lord that gaf til me undirstandyng and over that til the nyght, suyled me my neres.
Par. That es I sal luf the fader that hafs gyfen undyrstandyng til my servauntes, thurgh the qwilk the herytage of heven may be sene and welded; and aver that undyrstandyng, in the qwilk I saw, sais Crist, al sothefast thynges and haly. Of that I sal lof him that my nerys that es the Jewis of qwas kynd I toke flesch, that es my kyn snybbed me in wranges and temptaciounis, and passiouns, til the nyght, that es al the dede thai missaid hym, als so oure nerys; that es our fleschely delytes makes us worthy snybbyng til our dede; for perfytely may we noght be with outen syn, qwyles we lyf.
Ver. Psalms 16:8. Providebam Dominum in conspectu meo, c.
Trans. I pervaide God ay in my syght for he es at the ryght hand til me, that I be nout styrred.
Par. And in al thys anguys I for gatt nout God: bot I pervayde hym ay in my syght; that es, I comande o mang passand thynges: I toke nout my nee fra hym that ay es; bot I fested it in hym, so that he was ay in my sight, and he es nout fyled in synnes that assyduely with the ee of his thoght, byhaldes God, for he es at the ryght hand of me: that I be noght styred; that es, he helps me in desyre of endless gudes, that I last stabil in hym, and for thi nane il thyng may haf mayster of me.
Ver. Psalms 16:9. Propter hoc, elatum, est cor meum, et exultavit lingua mea, c.
Trans. Thar fore gladded es my hert, and my toung joyed over that, and my flesch sal rest in hope.
Par. This es ful joy that in hert es resayved, and with toung schewed, and over that joy in hert and mouth, my flesch sal rest in hope of rysyng.
Ver. Psalms 16:10. Quoniam non derelinques in Inferno animam meam, c.
Trans. For thow sal noght lefe my Saule in hell, ne thu sal noght gyf thi Halow to se corrupcion.
Par. That es at say, the Saule that I haf als veray man, sal noght be left in hell and my body that thu haloued, sal noght rote. Here men may knaw that this es goddes word for other mens bodis rotes.
Ver. Psalms 16:11. Notas michi fecisti vias vite, c.
Trans. Knawen thu maked til me, the wayes of lyf: thou sal fil me of joy with thi face, delytynges in thi ryghth and in til the end.
Par. Knawen thu maked thurgh me till myne, the wayes of lyf, that es the wayes of mekenes and charite, that men came til heven thurgh mekenes, fra qwethyn thai fel thurgh Pryde: and thow sal ful fil me that es, my servaundes, of joy with thi face; that es, in the syght of the, apertly; so that thai desyre nothing over, qwen thai af sene the, face til face, and ay til than delytynges til tham in way of this lyf. In thi ryght hand; that es thi favoure, and thi mercy the qwilk delytyngs ledys tham intil the ende, that es, in til perfectioun of endeles Blisfulhede.
I have given the whole of the translation and comment of this Psalm from this ancient Psalter, as a curious specimen of the doctrine and language of our northern neighbours in the thirteenth or fourteenth century.
ANALYSIS OF THE SIXTEENTH PSALM
Michtam David: David's precious jewel, or Psalm of gold; literally to be understood of David, but primarily and principally of Christ, Acts 2:22-28 c., whom he calls חסיד chased, God's Holy One, Psalms 16:10. And foretells his passion, resurrection, and ascension, Psalms 16:9-11.
This Psalm has two parts: I. Petition, Psalms 16:1. II. Thanksgiving, Psalms 16:7.
I. The petition begins the Psalm. It is for preservation: "Preserve me, O God." Keep me to the kingdom both temporal and eternal that thou hast promised. Guard me guide me; keep me. To induce the Lord to do this, he produces his reasons: -
1. His confidence: "For in thee I trust." This is a powerful plea, for to trust God is the highest honour we can do him; it acknowledges him as Sovereign.
2. His relation: "O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my God."
3. For this I would show myself thankful, and return the best of my best. But what can I give, save τα σα εκ των σων, "thy own things from thy own property?" My goods or goodness, my beneficence or bounty, is nothing unto thee. Sacrifice thou needest not, Psalms 50:8, nor art delighted in them: but mercy thou requirest, Hosea 6:6.
4. Then I will seek out thy receivers: "Thy saints that are in the earth." The family of the saints were the object of David's bounty, and his delight. But my liberality and charity shall extend to the saints that are in the earth, and unto such as are excellent; "in whom is all my delight."
5. But as for the wicked men and idolaters, I have no delight in them.
These he points out by two characteristics: -
1. They "hasten after another god," or endow another god. They spare no cost, but are lavish in endowing their gods: "Israel, part with thy jewels," c.
2. They offer their children to Molech: "Their drink-offerings of BLOOD will I not offer." On these accounts: -
1. "Their sorrows shall be multiplied." They shall be grievously punished.
2. I will not participate with them: "Their offerings I will not offer."
3. They are objects of my detestation: "I will not take up their names into my lips."
6. He gives another reason why he should show himself so thankful to God and bountiful to his saints - God's great bounty and liberality to him.
1. That God had given him a satisfactory portion: "The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup."
2. That God defended him in it: "Thou maintainest my lot."
3. That it was a fair portion: "The lines are fallen to me in pleasant places," c.
II. The second part of this Psalm is David's THANKSGIVING. It begins with, "I will bless the Lord," Psalms 16:7, not only for the temporal blessings mentioned before, but for the following spiritual blessings: -
1. For the illumination of his mind that I may understand the thing that is right: "The Lord hath given me counsel."
2. For the sanctifying influence on his heart: "My reins instruct me in the night seasons." When he was most retired he seemed to hear a voice within him, saying, "This is the way walk in it."
3. For his confidence and watchfulness: "I have set the Lord always before me." I do not forget my God; and he does not forget me.
4. For the consciousness he had of the Divine presence. "The Lord is at my right hand;" always ready to help and support me.
5. For his power to preserve: "I shall not be moved." Satan may stand at my right hand to resist and trouble me; Zechariah 3:1; but God is on my right hand to assist and comfort me; therefore, "I shall not be moved." While David prays and trusts, God supports; and while God supports, Satan cannot conquer.
6. For his inward happiness: "Therefore, my heart is glad." Wicked men rejoice in appearance; but David rejoiced in heart. He was all happy. His heart, glory, flesh, spirit, soul, body-all were overjoyed; and the reason was the prospect of his resurrection.
1. "My flesh shall rest or dwell in hope." 1. In this world, as in an inn; 2. In the grave, as in a repository; 3. In heaven, as in an endless mansion.
2. "Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell." Thou wilt not suffer death to have a final triumph; my flesh shall revive.
3. "Neither wilt thou suffer thy HOLY ONE to see corruption," meaning the Messiah, who should descend from his family. Christ's resurrection is the cause and pledge of ours.
7. He is thankful for the promise of a future life, which is here illustrated: -
1. From the quantity: "Fulness of joy."
2. From the quality: "Pleasures."
3. From the honour: "At thy right hand."
4. From the perpetuity: "For evermore."
5. From the cause: "Thy presence." The sight of God, the beatific vision. "Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore."
For the application of the whole Psalm to Christ alone, see the preceding notes.
