Mazmur 16:2

16:2 I say to the Lord, “You are the Lord,

my only source of well-being.” ¹ 

Mazmur 81:9

81:9 There must be ²  no other ³  god among you.

You must not worship a foreign god.

[16:2]  ¹ tn Heb “my good [is] not beyond you.” For the use of the preposition עַל (’al) in the sense of “beyond,” see BDB 755 s.v. 2.

[81:9]  ² tn The imperfect verbal forms in v. 9 have a modal function, expressing what is obligatory.

[81:9]  ³ tn Heb “different”; “illicit.”