You Will Not Abandon My Soul

A Miktam1 of David.

¹Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge.

²I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;

I have no good apart from you.”

³As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones,

in whom is all my delight.2

⁴The sorrows of those who run after3 another god shall multiply;

their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out

or take their names on my lips.

⁵The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup;

you hold my lot.

⁶The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;

indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.

⁷I bless the Lord who gives me counsel;

in the night also my heart instructs me.4

⁸I have set the Lord always before me;

because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.

⁹Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being5 rejoices;

my flesh also dwells secure.

¹⁰For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol,

or let your holy one see corruption.6

¹¹You make known to me the path of life;

in your presence there is fullness of joy;

at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

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