Psalms 16:1–4
The believer finds no good apart from the Lord, delighting in His people and rejecting the increasing sorrows of those who follow other gods.
1 Preserve me, God, for I take refuge in you.
2 My soul, you have said to Yahweh, “You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing.”
3 As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their names on my lips.
The believer finds no good apart from the Lord, delighting in His people and rejecting the increasing sorrows of those who follow other gods.
To express an exclusive covenant loyalty to Yahweh as the only source of goodness and to repudiate all forms of idolatrous worship.
Refuge, Fullness of Joy, and the Path of Life
Those who take refuge in the LORD find their supreme good, secure inheritance, unshaken stability, and fullness of joy in his life-giving presence.