Psalms 16:10

In 11 translations

BSB

For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.Cited in Acts 13:35

KJV

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

WEB

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.Sheol is the place of the dead.

ASV

For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol; Neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.

LSV

For You do not leave my soul to Sheol, || Nor give your Holy One to see corruption.

YLT

For Thou dost not leave my soul to Sheol, Nor givest thy saintly one to see corruption.

DBY

For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol, neither wilt thou allow thy Holy One to see corruption.

DRC15:10

Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; nor wilt then give thy holy one to see corruption.

GNV

For thou wilt not leaue my soule in the graue: neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption.

JPS

For Thou wilt not abandon my soul to the nether-world; neither wilt Thou suffer Thy godly one to see the pit.

LXXE15:10

because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

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Original-language editions

WLC

כִּ֤י ׀ לֹא־תַעֲזֹ֣ב נַפְשִׁ֣י לִשְׁא֑וֹל לֹֽא־תִתֵּ֥ן חֲ֝סִידְךָ֗ לִרְא֥וֹת שָֽׁחַת׃We read one or more vowels in L differently from BHS.

LXX-Br15:10

Ὅτι οὐκ ἐγκαταλείψεις τὴν ψυχήν μου εἰς ᾅδην, οὐδὲ δώσεις τὸν ὅσιόν σου ἰδεῖν διαφθοράν.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Acts 2:27–31because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay. You have made known to me the paths of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence.’ Brothers, I can tell you with…
• Acts 13:35–38So also, He says in another Psalm: ‘You will not let Your Holy One see decay.’ For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay. But the…
• Psalms 49:15But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah
• Revelation 1:18the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.
• Revelation 20:13The sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each one was judged according to his deeds.
• Isaiah 14:9Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you— all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.
• Luke 1:35The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God.
• Luke 16:23In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.
• Isaiah 5:14Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!
• Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
• Psalms 139:8If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.
• 1 Corinthians 15:42So will it be with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable; it is raised imperishable.
• Numbers 6:6Throughout the days of his separation to the LORD, he must not go near a dead body.
• 1 Corinthians 15:50–55Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—…
• Daniel 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and…
• Amos 9:2Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down.

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