On the wicked he will rain coals of fire and sulfur; a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
Psalm 16:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: Thou maintainest my lot. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The Lord is my chosen and assigned portion, my cup; You hold and maintain my lot. American Standard Version (1901) Jehovah is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: Thou maintainest my lot. Common English Bible You, LORD, are my portion, my cup; you control my destiny. Catholic Public Domain Version Perfect my steps in your paths, so that my footsteps may not be disturbed. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Perfect thou my goings in thy paths: that my footsteps be not moved. |
On the wicked he will rain coals of fire and sulfur; a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous might not stretch out their hands to do wrong.
The Lord swore to David a sure oath from which he will not turn back: “One of the sons of your body I will set on your throne.
I cry to you, O Lord; I say, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
‘I will establish your descendants forever and build your throne for all generations.’ ” Selah
For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne giving righteous judgment.
Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.
Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out himself to death and was numbered with the transgressors, yet he bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the one who formed all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; the Lord of hosts is his name.
God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior that he might give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.
Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
but they shall have no inheritance among the other members of the community; the Lord is their inheritance, as he promised them.
For the Lord has made the Jordan a boundary between us and you, you Reubenites and Gadites; you have no portion in the Lord.’ So your children might make our children cease to worship the Lord.
but to be a witness between us and you and between the generations after us, that we do perform the service of the Lord in his presence with our burnt offerings and sacrifices and offerings of well-being, so that your children may never say to our children in time to come, “You have no portion in the Lord.” ’