Preserve me, O God, for I take refuge in You. Psalm 16:1 (English text) Take Refuge – Do you really want God to give you shelter? Guess what? Unless you are Jonah, you will have to do something in order for that to happen. David doesn’t cry out and then sit around waiting for God…
Preserve me, O God, for I take refuge in You. Psalm 16:1 (English text Preserve – The Hebrew verb shamar is used more than 300 times in the Scriptures. It covers the ground from Genesis to Malachi. It means “to keep, to obey, to observe, to preserve, to guard, to be careful, to watch” in…
A miktam of David Psalm 16:1 (Hebrew text) Miktam – Only six psalms contain this Hebrew word, miktam. No one is quite sure what it means, but all six of these psalms are psalms of lament. All six are linked to David and four of the six have references to David’s struggles with enemies. One…
Preserve me, O God, for I take refuge in You. Psalm 16:1 Take Refuge – Yesterday Nahum told us that God knows those worshippers who willingly turn their lives over into His hands in the day of trouble. Now we can see what David thought about this kind of refuge. There is an implication in…
