Not abandoned to the grave

¹ Preserve me, God, for I take refuge in you.

² My soul, you have said to Yahweh, “You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing.”

³ As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.

⁴ Their 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.

⁵ Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.

⁶ The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance.

⁷ I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

⁸ I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

⁹ Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body shall also dwell in safety.

¹⁰ For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

¹¹ You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

²² “Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, even as you yourselves know,

²³ him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

²⁴ whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

²⁵ For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.

²⁶ Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope;

²⁷ because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

²⁸ You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence.’

²⁹ “Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

³⁰ 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 the Christ to sit on his throne,

³¹ he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul wasn’t left in Hades, and his flesh didn’t see decay.

³² This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.

³³ Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

³⁴ For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right hand

³⁵ until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.” ’

³⁶ “Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”

³⁴ “Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’

³⁵ Therefore he says also in another psalm, ‘You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.’

³⁶ For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

³⁷ But he whom God raised up saw no decay.