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Now as for the “holy ones” in the land,
    the “magnificent ones” that I was so happy about;
    let their suffering increase because
        they hurried after a different god.[a]
I won’t participate in their blood offerings;
    I won’t let their names cross my lips.
You, Lord, are my portion, my cup;
    you control my destiny.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 16:4 Heb uncertain in 16:3-4; Heb lacks because and god in 16:4.

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