Psalms 16

Which worship songs are based on Psalms 16?

  1. Feast of Your Faithfulness — Bethany Barnard (2021) Psalms 16:1

    The opening plea directly reproduces the psalm's appeal for God to preserve the speaker.

  2. Psalm 16 (In Thy Presence Is Fulness Of Joy) — Brian Sauvé (2023) Psalms 16:1-11

    The entire song is a close metrical rendering of Psalm 16, following its progression from trust and rejection of idolatry to secure inheritance, preservation from death, and eternal joy in God's presence.

  3. I WILL WAIT — Torey D'Shaun & Kimani Jones (2024) Psalms 16:1-11

    The second verse explicitly names Psalm 16 and invokes it as an affirmation of security in God amid weakness and bleak circumstances.

  4. Needy — Joel Figueroa (2025) Psalms 16:2

    The bridge directly adopts David’s confession that every good he possesses is found in God rather than independently of him. This supports the song’s central acknowledgment of dependence on God.

  5. Satisfy (You Prepare For Us A Table) — The Porter's Gate (2025) Psalms 16:5

    Calling God both cup and portion adopts Psalm 16's distinctive image of the Lord himself as the worshiper's inheritance and sustenance.

  6. Everything You Are — AWAKE84 (2022) Psalms 16:5-6

    The second verse closely reproduces Psalm 16's imagery of the Lord as portion and cup and of an inheritance marked out pleasantly. The bridge also echoes the psalm's declarations of stability and joy in God's presence.

  7. The Worthy One - Live — New Life Worship, Lauren Smith (2024) Psalms 16:5

    The description of Jesus as the singer's portion and cup closely reproduces the paired metaphors David uses for the Lord as his inheritance and security.

  8. Bigger Everyday — Moses Bliss & Festizie & The membrane & Uwa & Chris Heaven & Temple (2021) Psalms 16:6

    The reference to allotted boundary lines resting in favorable territory closely reproduces the psalm's description of a God-given and delightful inheritance.

  9. Praise Is The Breakthrough — Housefires (2024) Psalms 16:8

    The singer's deliberate focus on God followed by a declaration of stability closely parallels David's confidence that keeping the Lord continually before him prevents him from being shaken.

  10. Heart's Delight — John Mark McMillan (2025) Psalms 16:11

    The lyrics express a sense of joy and satisfaction in God's presence, which resonates with the promise of joy found in Psalm 16:11, where it speaks of fullness of joy in God's presence.

  11. There Is Peace - Live — Planetshakers (2026) Psalms 16:11

    The refrain closely echoes the psalm’s association of God’s presence with abundant joy. The shared pairing of divine presence and fullness of joy is specific enough to indicate a likely allusion.

  12. King of Glory (Live) — CeCe Winans (2021) Psalms 16:11

    The interlude directly adopts the psalm’s distinctive declaration that complete joy is found in God’s presence.

  13. The Worshipper's Song — Dunsin Oyekan (2024) Psalms 16:11

    The repeated association of God’s presence with joy and delight closely paraphrases the psalm’s declaration that fullness of joy and lasting pleasures are found before God.

  14. Everything Is Changing - Live — The Belonging Co & Shantrice Laura (2022) Psalms 16:11

    The bridge specifically locates complete joy in God's presence, closely restating the conclusion of Psalm 16.

Psalms 16 (King James Version)

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

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

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

4 Their 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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