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Psalms 16:11

Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

KJV

Projicientes me nunc circumdederunt me ; oculos suos statuerunt declinare in terram.

Vulgate

ἐκβάλλοντές με νυνὶ περιεκύκλωσάν με, τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτῶν ἔθεντο ἐκκλῖναι ἐν τῇ γῇ·

LXX

Thou wilt show me the path of life: In thy presence is fulness of joy; In thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

ASV

תּֽוֹדִיעֵ/נִי֮ אֹ֤רַח חַ֫יִּ֥ים שֹׂ֣בַע שְׂ֭מָחוֹת אֶת פָּנֶ֑י/ךָ נְעִמ֖וֹת בִּ/ימִינְ/ךָ֣ נֶֽצַח

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶת
't
preposition · 883×
אֹ֣רַח
'rch
noun · 60×
וֹ
v
noun · 141×
חַי
chy
verb · 502×
יָדְע֖וּ
yd'v
verb · 944×
נֶ֑צַח
ntsch
noun · 43×
נְּעִימִֽים
n'ymym
adjective · 13×
פְנֵ֣י
pny
noun · 2111×
שִׂמְחָֽה
shmchh
noun · 93×
שֹׂ֑בַע
shb'
noun · 8×

Themes

Prophecy

Historic Christian voices

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

Chapter 7.—That the Words Love and Regard (Amor and Dilectio) are in Scripture Used Indifferently of Good and Evil Affection. He who resolves to love God, and to love his neighbor as himself, not according to man but according to God, is on account of this love said to be of a good will; and this is in Scripture more commonly called charity, but it is also, even in the same boo…
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

  • 1Chr 16:27 — Glory and honour are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place.
  • 1Cor 13:12 — For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
  • 1John 3:2 — Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
  • 1John 3:2 — Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
  • 1Pet 3:22 — Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
  • 1Thess 4:17 — Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
  • 2Cor 4:17 — For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
  • 2Cor 5:8 — We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
  • 2Thess 2:14 — Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Acts 2:28 — Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
  • Acts 2:28 — Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
  • Col 3:1 — If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
  • Eph 3:19 — And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
  • Isa 2:3 — And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Z
  • Isa 61:7 — For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
  • Job 19:26 — And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
  • John 5:39 — Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
  • Jude 1:24 — Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
  • Mark 16:19 — So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
  • Matt 5:8 — Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
  • Matt 7:14 — Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
  • Matt 25:33 — And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
  • Matt 25:46 — And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
  • Phil 3:20 — For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
  • Prov 2:19 — None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
  • Prov 4:18 — But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
  • Prov 5:6 — Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
  • Prov 8:21 — That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.
  • Prov 12:28 — In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
  • Prov 15:24 — The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
  • Ps 17:15 — As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
  • Ps 17:15 — As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
  • Ps 21:4 — He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
  • Ps 21:6 — For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.
  • Ps 23:6 — Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
  • Ps 30:5 — For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
  • Ps 31:19 — Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
  • Ps 36:7 — How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
  • Ps 36:8 — They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
  • Ps 37:18 — The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.