Psalm 16:6 {15:6}
Good News Translation
How wonderful are your gifts to me; how good they are!

New Revised Standard Version
The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; I have a goodly heritage.

Contemporary English Version
You make my life pleasant, and my future is bright.

New American Bible
Pleasant places were measured out for me; fair to me indeed is my inheritance.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The lines are fallen unto me in goodly places: for my inheritance is goodly to me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The lines are fallen unto me in goodly places: for my inheritance is goodly to me.

The lines

Psalm 78:55 And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.

Amos 7:17 And now hear thou the word of the Lord: Thou sayest, thou shalt not prophesy against Israel, and thou shalt not drop thy word upon the house of the idol.

in pleasant

Psalm 21:1-3 Unto the end. A psalm for David. [2] In thy strength, O Lord, the king shall joy; and in thy salvation he shall rejoice exceedingly. . . .

Hebrews 12:2 Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who, having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God.

I have

Jeremiah 3:19 But I said: How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a lovely land, the goodly inheritance of the armies of the Gentiles? And I said: Thou shalt call me father and shalt not cease to walk after me.

John 20:17 Jesus saith to her: Do not touch me: for I am not yet ascended to my Father. But go to my brethren and say to them: I ascend to my Father and to your Father, to my God and to your God.

Romans 8:17 And if sons, heirs also; heirs indeed of God and joint heirs with Christ: yet so, if we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him.

1 Corinthians 3:21-23 Let no man therefore glory in men. . . .

Ephesians 1:18 The eyes of your heart enlightened that you may know what the hope is of his calling and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.

Philippians 2:9-11 For which cause, God also hath exalted him and hath given him a name which is above all names: . . .

2 Timothy 2:12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him. If we deny him, he will also deny us.

Revelation 3:21 To him that shall overcome, I will give to sit with me in my throne: as I also have overcome and am set down with my Father in his throne.

Context
The Presence of God
5The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: it is thou that wilt restore my inheritance to me. 6The lines are fallen unto me in goodly places: for my inheritance is goodly to me.7I will bless the Lord, who hath given me understanding: moreover, my reins also have corrected me even till night.…
Cross References
Psalm 78:55
And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.

Jeremiah 3:19
But I said: How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a lovely land, the goodly inheritance of the armies of the Gentiles? And I said: Thou shalt call me father and shalt not cease to walk after me.

Psalm 16:5
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