Psalms 16 Comparison: Catholic Public Domain vs KJV with Apocrypha

Psalms 16

¹A Prayer of David. Lord, listen to my justice, attend to my supplication. Pay attention to my prayer, which is not from deceitful lips.

²Let my judgment proceed from your presence. Let your eyes behold fairness.

³You have tested my heart and visited it by night. You have examined me by fire, and iniquity has not been found in me.

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

⁵Perfect my steps in your paths, so that my footsteps may not be disturbed.

⁶I have cried out because you, O God, have listened to me. Incline your ear to me and heed my words.

⁷Make your mercies wonderful, for you save those who hope in you.

⁸From those who resist your right hand, preserve me like the pupil of your eye. Protect me under the shadow of your wings,

⁹from the face of the impious who have afflicted me. My enemies have surrounded my soul.

¹⁰They have concealed their fatness; their mouth has been speaking arrogantly.

¹¹They have cast me out, and now they have surrounded me. They have cast their eyes down to the earth.

¹²They have taken me, like a lion ready for the prey, and like a young lion dwelling in hiding.

¹³Rise up, O Lord, arrive before him and displace him. Deliver my soul from the impious one: your spear from the enemies of your hand.

¹⁴Lord, divide them from the few of the earth in their life. Their gut has been filled from your hidden stores. They have been filled with sons, and they have bequeathed to their little ones the remainder.

¹⁵But as for me, I will appear before your sight in justice. I will be satisfied when your glory appears.

Psalms 16

¹Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.

²O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;

³But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

⁴Their 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.

⁵The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.

⁶The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

⁷I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.

⁸I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

⁹Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.

¹⁰For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

¹¹Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.