Psalm 16:4 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

⁴ Their sorrows shall be multiply'd to other gods that haste: Of their drink-offerings of blood I will no off 'ring make; Yea, neither I their very names up in my lips will take.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: Their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, Nor take up their names into my lips.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Their sorrows shall be multiplied who choose another god; their drink offerings of blood will I not offer or take their names upon my lips.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Their sorrows shall be multiplied that give gifts for another god: Their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer, Nor take their names upon my lips.

Common English Bible

⁴ let their suffering increase because they hurried after a different god. I won’t participate in their blood offerings; I won’t let their names cross my lips.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Therefore, may my mouth not speak the works of men. I have kept to difficult ways because of the words of your lips.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ That my mouth may not speak the works of men: for the sake of the words of thy lips, I have kept hard ways.

Psalm 16:4 Cross References

Psalm 32:10

Unto the man that wicked is his sorrows shall abound; But him that trusteth in the Lord mercy shall compass round.

Psalm 97:7

All who serve graven images, confounded let them be. Who do of idols boast themselves, let shame upon them fall: Ye that are called gods, see that ye do him worship all.