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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Psalm 16:1 Catholic Bible: Protect me, O God; I trust in you for safety. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/psalms/16-1.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/psalms/16-1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/psalms/16-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/psalms/1.htm">Psalms</a> > <a href="/gntd/psalms/16.htm">Chapter 16</a> > Verse 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/15-5.htm" title="Psalm 15:5">◄</a> Psalm 16:1 {15:1} <a href="../psalms/16-2.htm" title="Psalm 16:2">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/psalms/16.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/psalms/16.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Protect me, O God; I trust in you for safety. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/psalms/16.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Protect me, O God, for in you I take refuge.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/psalms/16.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Protect me, LORD God! I run to you for safety, <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/psalms/16.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />A <i>miktam</i> of David. Keep me safe, O God; in you I take refuge. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/psalms/16.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />The inscription of a title to David himself. Preserve me, O Lord, for I have put my trust in thee.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">The inscription of a title to David himself. Preserve me, O Lord, for I have put my trust in thee.</p><p class="hdg">A.</p><p class="hdg2">2962 B.C.</p><p class="hdg2">1042 (Title.) [Michtam] or, A golden [Psalm] of David</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/56-1.htm">Psalm 56:1</a> Unto the end, for a people that is removed at a distance from the sanctuary: for David, for an inscription of a title (or pillar) when the Philistines held him in Geth. [2] Have mercy on me, O God, for man hath trodden me under foot; all the day long he hath afflicted me fighting against me.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/60-1.htm">Psalm 60:1</a> Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, for the inscription of a title, to David himself, for doctrine, [2] When he set fire to Mesopotamia of Syria and Sobal: and Joab returned and slew of Edom, in the vale of the saltpits, twelve thousand men. [3] O God, thou hast cast us off, and hast destroyed us; thou hast been angry, and hast had mercy on us.</p><p class="hdg">Preserve</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/17-5.htm">Psalm 17:5,8</a> Perfect thou my goings in thy paths: that my footsteps be not moved. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/31-23.htm">Psalm 31:23</a> O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord will require truth, and will repay them abundantly that act proudly.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/37-28.htm">Psalm 37:28</a> For the Lord loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: they shall be preserved for ever. The unjust shall be punished, and the seed of the wicked shall perish.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/97-10.htm">Psalm 97:10</a> You that love the Lord, hate evil: the Lord preserveth the souls of his saints, he will deliver them out of the hand of the sinner.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/116-6.htm">Psalm 116:6</a> The Lord is the keeper of little ones: I was humbled, and he delivered me.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/2-8.htm">Proverbs 2:8</a> Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path.</p><p class="hdg">for</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/9-10.htm">Psalm 9:10</a> And let them trust in thee who know thy name: for thou hast not forsaken them that seek thee, O Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/22-8.htm">Psalm 22:8</a> He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: let him save him, seeing he delighteth in him.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/25-20.htm">Psalm 25:20</a> Keep thou my soul, and deliver me: I shall not be ashamed, for I have hoped in thee.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/84-12.htm">Psalm 84:12</a> He will not deprive of good things them that walk in innocence: O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/125-1.htm">Psalm 125:1</a> A gradual canticle. They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Sion: he shall not be moved for ever that dwelleth</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/146-5.htm">Psalm 146:5</a> Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his helper, whose hope is in the Lord his God:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/26-3.htm">Isaiah 26:3,4</a> The old error is passed away: thou wilt keep peace: peace, because we have hoped in thee. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/17-7.htm">Jeremiah 17:7,8</a> Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the Lord shall be his confidence. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/1-9.htm">2 Corinthians 1:9</a> But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_timothy/1-12.htm">2 Timothy 1:12</a> For which cause, I also suffer these things: but I am not ashamed. For I know whom I have believed and I am certain that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him, against that day.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/psalms/16.htm">The Presence of God</a></span><br> <span class="reftext">1</span><span class="highl">The inscription of a title to David himself. Preserve me, O Lord, for I have put my trust in thee.</span><span class="reftext">2</span>I have said to the Lord, thou art my God, for thou hast no need of my goods.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/7-1.htm">Psalm 7:1</a></span><br />The psalm of David, which he sung to the Lord, for the words of Chusi, the son of Jemini. [2] O Lord, my God, in thee have I put my trust; save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/17-8.htm">Psalm 17:8</a></span><br />From them that resist thy right hand keep me, as the apple of thy eye. Protect me under the shadow of thy wings.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/56-1.htm">Psalm 56:1</a></span><br />Unto the end, for a people that is removed at a distance from the sanctuary: for David, for an inscription of a title (or pillar) when the Philistines held him in Geth. [2] Have mercy on me, O God, for man hath trodden me under foot; all the day long he hath afflicted me fighting against me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/57-1.htm">Psalm 57:1</a></span><br />Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title, when he fled from Saul into the cave. [2] Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me: for my soul trusteth in thee. And in the shadow of thy wings will I hope, until iniquity pass away.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/psalms/15-5.htm">David</a> <a href="/psalms/13-5.htm">Faith</a> <a href="/psalms/15-5.htm">Michtam</a> <a href="/psalms/60-1.htm">Miktam</a> <a href="/psalms/60-1.htm">Poem</a> <a href="/psalms/12-7.htm">Preserve</a> <a href="/psalms/14-6.htm">Refuge</a> <a href="/psalms/12-7.htm">Safe</a> <a href="/psalms/10-9.htm">Secret</a> <a href="/job/38-22.htm">Treasure</a> <a href="/psalms/13-5.htm">Trust</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/psalms/16-11.htm">David</a> <a href="/psalms/17-7.htm">Faith</a> <a href="/psalms/55-23.htm">Michtam</a> <a href="/psalms/56-1.htm">Miktam</a> <a href="/psalms/34-1.htm">Poem</a> <a href="/psalms/25-21.htm">Preserve</a> <a href="/psalms/17-7.htm">Refuge</a> <a href="/psalms/18-3.htm">Safe</a> <a href="/psalms/17-12.htm">Secret</a> <a href="/psalms/17-14.htm">Treasure</a> <a href="/psalms/17-7.htm">Trust</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/psalms/16-1.htm">Psalm 16:1 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/psalms/16-1.htm">Psalm 16:1 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/psalms/16-1.htm">Psalm 16:1 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/psalms/16-1.htm">Psalm 16:1 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/psalms/16-1.htm">Psalm 16:1 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/psalms/16-1.htm">Psalm 16:1 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/psalms/16-1.htm">Psalm 16:1 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/psalms/16-1.htm">Psalm 16:1 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/psalms/16-1.htm">Psalm 16:1 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: A David for God I in Keep me miktam O of Preserve refuge safe take you<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/psalms/16-1.htm">OT Poetry: Psalm 16:1 A Poem by David (Psalm Ps Psa.) 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