Psalms 116:15
Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
KJV
Precious in the sight of Jehovah Is the death of his saints.
ASV
יָ֭קָר בְּ/עֵינֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה הַ֝/מָּ֗וְתָ/ה לַ/חֲסִידָֽי/ו
Hebrew
Precious in the eyes of Jehovah is the death for His saints.
YLT
Precious in the LORD’s sight is the death of his saints.
WEB
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In the original Hebrew
5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
ו
v
adjective · 33×
וֹ
v
noun · 157×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יְקָרָ֑ה
yqrh
noun · 35×
ךָ
k
noun · 894×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
City of God · 2 passages
Chapter 12.—Of the Burial of the Dead: that the Denial of It to Christians Does Them No Injury.6161 Augustin expresses himself more fully on this subject in his tract, De cura pro mortuis gerenda. Further still, we are reminded that in such a carnage as then occurred, the bodies could not even be buried. But godly confidence is not appalled by so ill-omened a circumstance; for …
Chapter 7.—Of the Death Which the Unbaptized585585 Literally, unregenerate. Suffer for the Confession of Christ. For whatever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism. For He who said, “Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the …
Cross-references
- 1Sam 25:29 — Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as
- 1Sam 25:29 — Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as
- Isa 38:5 — Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
- Luke 16:22 — And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
- Num 23:10 — Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
- Ps 16:3 — But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
- Ps 31:15 — My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
- Ps 37:32 — The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
- Ps 72:14 — He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
- Ps 72:14 — He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
- Rev 1:18 — I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
- Rev 14:3 — And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed fro