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Psalms 16:10

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

KJV

adipem suum concluserunt : os eorum locutum est superbiam.

Vulgate

τὸ στέαρ αὐτῶν συνέκλεισαν, τὸ στόμα αὐτῶν ἐλάλησεν ὑπερηφανίαν·

LXX

For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol; Neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.

ASV

כִּ֤י לֹא תַעֲזֹ֣ב נַפְשִׁ֣/י לִ/שְׁא֑וֹל לֹֽא תִתֵּ֥ן חֲ֝סִידְ/ךָ֗ לִ/רְא֥וֹת שָֽׁחַת

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

ו
v
adjective · 33×
י
y
noun · 752×
יַּ֣רְא
yr'
verb · 1312×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
ם
m
verb · 1995×
נִי
ny
verb · 212×
שְׁא֣וֹל
sh'vl
verb · 66×
שַּׁ֣חַת
shcht
noun · 22×

Intertextual echoes

Quoted or echoed by 2 later passages.

  • Acts 2:27 · exact_quote
    "Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption."
    Peter quotes Psalm 16: you will not abandon my soul to Hades
  • Acts 13:35 · paraphrase
    "Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption."
    Psalm 16: you will not let your Holy One see corruption — Paul at Antioch

Themes

Prophecy

Historic Christian voices

7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§627Christ's death was a real death in that it put an end to his earthly human existence. But because of the union his body retained with the person of the Son, his was not a mortal corpse like others, for "divine power preserved Christ's body from corruption."470 Both of these statements can be said of Christ: "He was cut off out of the land of the living",471 and "My flesh will d…
City of God · 2 passages
Chapter 4.—About the Prefigured Change of the Israelitic Kingdom and Priesthood, and About the Things Hannah the Mother of Samuel Prophesied, Personating the Church. Therefore the advance of the city of God, where it reached the times of the kings, yielded a figure, when, on the rejection of Saul, David first obtained the kingdom on such a footing that thenceforth his descendan…
Chapter 18.—Of the 3d, 41st, 15th, and 68th Psalms, in Which the Death and Resurrection of the Lord are Prophesied. About His resurrection also the oracles of the Psalms are by no means silent. For what else is it that is sung in His person in the 3d Psalm, “I laid me down and took a sleep, [and] I awaked, for the Lord shall sustain me?”10971097 Ps. iii. 5. Is there perchance a…
Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust. David expresses his confidence in God as his portion and inheritance. The words "thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption" are directly applied by Peter to the resurrection of Christ. David spoke as a prophet, knowing that God had sworn to raise up Christ to sit on his thron…
'Preserve me, O Lord, for in Thee have I put my trust.' See Ps. xvi. 1. This is spoken in the person of Christ, who says: 'I have said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord; my goods are nothing unto Thee.' See Ps. xvi. 2. The humanity of Christ speaks to His divinity, for the human nature profited nothing to the divine, but the divine profited everything to the human. And then: 'Tho…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 15:4 — And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
  • 1Cor 15:42 — So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
  • 1Cor 15:42 — So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
  • 1Cor 15:50 — Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
  • 1John 2:20 — But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
  • Acts 2:27 — Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
  • Acts 2:27 — Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
  • Acts 2:31 — He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
  • Acts 3:14 — But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
  • Acts 13:35 — Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
  • Acts 13:35 — Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
  • Amos 9:2 — Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:
  • Dan 9:24 — Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting right
  • Deut 32:22 — For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
  • Deut 33:8 — And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;
  • Hos 13:14 — I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
  • Isa 5:14 — Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
  • Isa 14:9 — Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nation
  • Job 11:8 — It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
  • Job 17:14 — I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
  • John 2:22 — When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
  • John 20:9 — For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
  • Jonah 2:6 — I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
  • Lev 19:28 — Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
  • Luke 1:35 — And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be c
  • Luke 4:34 — Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.
  • Luke 16:23 — And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
  • Mark 1:24 — Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
  • Mark 10:34 — And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.
  • Matt 25:21 — His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
  • Matt 25:46 — And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
  • Num 6:6 — All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body.
  • Phil 1:23 — For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
  • Prov 15:11 — Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
  • Prov 27:20 — Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
  • Ps 9:17 — The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
  • Ps 21:4 — He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
  • Ps 30:3 — O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
  • Ps 49:9 — That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
  • Ps 49:15 — But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.