Psalms 16:1

David prays for God to preserve him because he takes refuge in the Lord alone. It matters because safety is found in trusting God rather than ourselves.

Cross-references · 20

• Isa 26:3–4You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.
• Ps 31:23Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
• Ps 17:8Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,
• Ps 56:1For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Silent Dove in Distant Lands.” A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
• 2 Tim 1:12For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
• Ps 7:1A meditation by David, which he sang to Yahweh, concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite. Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,
• Ps 116:6Yahweh preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.
• Jer 17:7–8“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.
• Ps 60:1For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A teaching poem by David, when he fought with Aram Naharaim and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt. God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.
• Ps 84:12Yahweh of Armies, blessed is the man who trusts in you.
• Prov 2:8that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.
• Ps 9:10Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.
• Ps 25:20Oh keep my soul, and deliver me. Let me not be disappointed, for I take refuge in you.
• Ps 146:5Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:
• Ps 37:28For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
• Ps 17:5My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.
• Ps 125:1A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.
• Ps 97:10You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
• Ps 22:8“He trusts in Yahweh; let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”
• 2 Cor 1:9Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

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