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I[a] said to the Lord, ‘You are my Lord;
I have nothing good besides you’.[b](A)
As for the holy people who are in the land,(B)
they are the noble ones.
All my delight is in them.
The sorrows of those who take another god
for themselves will multiply;
I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood,
and I will not speak their names with my lips.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 16:2 Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr, Jer; other Hb mss read You
  2. 16:2 Or ‘Lord, my good; there is none besides you.’