A Poem by Dawud.
1Preserve me, God, for in you do I take refuge.
2My soul, you have said to YAHWEH, “You are my Lord.
Apart from you I have no good thing.”
3As for the saints who are in the earth,
They are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
4Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god.
Their drink-offerings of blood I will not offer,
Nor take their names on my lips.
5YAHWEH assigned my portion and my cup.
You made my lot secure.
6The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places.
Yes, I have a good inheritance.
7I will bless YAHWEH, who has given me counsel.
Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.
8I have set YAHWEH always before me.
Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
9Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices.
My body also will dwell in safety.
10For you will not leave my soul in the grave,
You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.
11You will show me the path of life.
You will fill me with joy in your presence.1
In your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.
- 16:8-11 Quoted in a sermon about the resurrection of ‘ISA AL-MASIH spoken by the Apostle Peter in the Injil, Acts 2:25-31: “For Dawud says concerning him [‘ISA], ‘I saw the LORD always before my face. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. Moreover my body also will dwell in hope; For you will not leave my soul in the grave, You will not allow your Holy One to see decay. You have made known to me the path of life. You will fill me with joy in your presence.‘ Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch Dawud, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up AL-MASIH to sit on his throne, he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of AL-MASIH, that neither was his ‘soul left in the grave,’ nor did his flesh ‘see decay.’” ↩︎