9-10 I’m happy from the inside out,
    and from the outside in, I’m firmly formed.
You canceled my ticket to hell—
    that’s not my destination!

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No wonder my heart is glad, and I rejoice.[a]
    My body rests in safety.
10 For you will not leave my soul among the dead[b]
    or allow your holy one[c] to rot in the grave.

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Footnotes

  1. 16:9 Greek version reads and my tongue shouts his praises. Compare Acts 2:26.
  2. 16:10a Hebrew in Sheol.
  3. 16:10b Or your Holy One.


Therefore my heart is glad and my glory [my innermost self] rejoices;
My body too will dwell [confidently] in safety,
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For You will not abandon me to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.(A)

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Therefore my heart is glad(A) and my tongue rejoices;
    my body also will rest secure,(B)
10 because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,(C)
    nor will you let your faithful[a] one(D) see decay.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 16:10 Or holy

9-10 I’m happy from the inside out,
    and from the outside in, I’m firmly formed.
You canceled my ticket to hell—
    that’s not my destination!

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No wonder my heart is glad, and I rejoice.[a]
    My body rests in safety.

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Footnotes

  1. 16:9 Greek version reads and my tongue shouts his praises. Compare Acts 2:26.


Therefore my heart is glad and my glory [my innermost self] rejoices;
My body too will dwell [confidently] in safety,

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Therefore my heart is glad(A) and my tongue rejoices;
    my body also will rest secure,(B)

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